Aug 17-Sep 30: Korean-Indian Artist Collaboration Exhibition – SYNTHESIS OF DIFFERENCE

NEW DELHI: Korean Cultural Centre India is hosting an exhibition titled SYNTHESIS OF DIFFERENCE (차이의 합성) by Korean and Indian contemporary artists, promoting cultural exchange between the two countries. The exhibition will open on August 17, 2022, at Nam June Paik Hall, Korean Cultural Centre India (KCCI), New Delhi.

The exhibition, jointly curated by Jeong Heon-ki and B. Ajay Sharma, aims to combine different artistic perspectives of Korea and India into one through new media art, photography, painting, installation, and performance. It is an attempt to bring together the modern art of the two countries by mediating ‘difference’ and using ‘synthesis’ as a tool.

A total of 10 artists will participate in the exhibition, including Lee Lee Nam, Haru K., Lee Jeong Lok, Park Ji Hyoung, Harpreet Singh, Paribartana Mohanty, Neha G. Verma, Birender Kumar Yadav, B. Ajay Sharma and Ghazala Parveen.

The Korean artists Lee Lee Nam, Haru K., and Lee Jeong Lok, are currently considered as “the most popular artists” in Korea. Lee Lee Nam is considered one of the most active artists of our time, creating contemplative media art in the context of Korean history. He studies and showcases how the meeting of classics and modernity, humanity and nature, the East and the West and creation and cloning are reproduced in modern values. The exhibition will showcase his work titled  “Cartoon Folding Screen.” In addition, Lee Jeong Lok is an artist uses various light sources in natural settings to depict mystical imageries.

Haru K. is an artist who shows a fresh perspective on the synthesis of tradition and modernity, primarily known for his well-received series titled “Delicious Sansu” consisting of surreal landscape paintings that combine real food and civilization. Park Ji Hyoung is an artist who expresses the search for collective consciousness through performance. Park Ji Hyoung has lived in India for three years and has been working on various projects and exchanges with Korean and Indian artists.

Indian artists participating in the exhibition are also very noteworthy. The exhibition talks about memory and ecology through the artwork of Paribartana Mohanty and triggers questions of identity, representation, and politics of class difference through the artwork of Birender Kumar Yadav, the time and space of B. Ajay Sharma, and artist Harpreep Singh draws attention to migration and displacement and aims to develop a performative interrogation of physical activities using his own body as a medium.

Hwang Il Yong, director of the Korean Cultural Centre India, said, “This exhibition aims to showcase the artworks of renowned contemporary artists from Korea and India. Through their works, we look forward to taking a step closer to understanding the “synthesis” of “difference” in a modern era which various times exists with various cultures.”