BAE YOUNG-WHAN: SO NEAR SO FAR
21 Mar - 4 May 2024
BB&M is pleased to present So Near So Far, a solo exhibition of new work by Bae Young-whan. Recognized for a practice that melds a keen awareness of vernacular beauty to neo-conceptual strategies, Bae is a key figure in the influential, albeit loosely defined, post-minjung generation of Korean artists who emerged in the late 1990s grappling with the legacies of Korea’s turbulent modernity. Often making use of humble, mundane elements (discarded material from construction sites, broken bottles, sentimental song lyrics), his art is attuned to the ephemeral surfaces of lived experience as well as the deeper structures of feeling that underlie Korean society.
Read more