LIQUID MODERNITY

BB&M is pleased to present Liquid Modernity, a group exhibition featuring Jo Jae, Haevan Lee, and Sikyung Sung, three Korean painters born in the final decade of the previous century whose practices have gained increasing recognition. Having come of age in a bewildering globalized environment inundated by information and a ubiquitous culture of consumption, these artists have developed perceptual systems attuned to a contemporary world shaped by accelerated structural shifts.

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman proposed the concept liquid modernity to describe the increasingly fluid and precarious condition of modern society in the decades immediately preceding the present moment, a time when existing societal institutions, norms, and relationships began to undergo a profound dislocation.