Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
July 3 - September 19, 2010
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State St.
Santa Barbara, California
www.sbma.netThe first major exhibition in the United States of photographs made by contemporary Korean artists presently living in Korea, Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography opens a window to the dynamic photographic scene in the Republic of Korea, known in the West as South Korea. Bringing together work by 40 contemporary photographers, this presentation of 42 large-scale images surveys the range of contemporary issues through the themes of land and sea; urbanization and globalization; family, friends, and memory; identity: cultural and personal; and anxiety.