Participating Artist

Mioon - Min Kim, Moon Choi

Mioon, the artist duo of Min Kim and Moon Choi, has developed their career in art scenes in Korea and around the world, as being one of the most representative artists of Korea in the field of media art and video installation. Mioon – Memory Theater is the first solo show held in the museum since their return from Germany in 2006, including nine new works—six object installations including videos and three video works presented for the first time.

Mioon’s video installations since mid-2000s mainly focused on the social implications of a ‘collective crowd’ while their works since late 2000s has oriented toward the two key words, “memory” and “theater.” As far as the artist understands, memory is always incomplete and unstable. Through the video-installation works the artist reveals such an allegorical structure of memory that is complicated and unstable, difficult to be grasped on the whole. Also, the artist reexamines our internalized social memories, inquiring into the family as a theater of lives and an archive of memories and signifying the mechanism of releasing repressed memories, as a traumatic recall.

Hosted by      Coreana Museum of Art

Supported by Coreana Cosmetics, Co., Ltd., Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture