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프린트버튼

Together! Collaboration and Coexistence: Special Companionship-Themed Exhibition at the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art Crafts for You, Enjoyed Together:

• Period : 2024. 9. 6. ~ 2024. 10. 20.
• Venue : Gyeonggi Museum of Ceramic Design (Yeoju)

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• About the exhibition

For its 2020 Population and Housing Census, Statistics Korea posed this question: "Does your household currently have a companion animal?" Responses indicated that 3.129 million households, 15% of the total, were animal-owners. With companion animal ownership evidently trending upwards, it's clear that this number will soon surpass ten million.

This shift in how we perceive animals is reflected in a terminology and language change, from “pets” to “companion animals”, with the Standard Korean Dictionary officially recognizing the term and its use adopted for law and regulations. The idea of a “pet”, implying a toy or object of amusement, has been replaced by the idea of an “mutual relationship” with animals, where emotional bonds and co-existence, rather than a one-sided dynamic, are emphasized.

With greater numbers embracing companion animals as family members, or subscribing to a “Pet Family” concept and culture, spending on related products and services has jumped significantly. 2021 Korea Rural Economic Institute figures show a domestic companion animal market valued at 3.4 trillion KRW, expected to grow to 6 trillion KRW by 2027.

In response to these social changes, the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art has organized a special exhibition to increase accessibility to crafts and expand their presence in our lives. Under the theme of "Together!" for the Gyeonggi Ceramic Biennale 2024, this exhibition welcomes humans and their companion animals. It showcases crafts designed for all symbiotic relationships, including companion plants as well as animals. We invite you to experience the craft works of nine talented young creatives, eight of whom are resident artists of the Korea Ceramic Foundation.

In the exhibition's cozy library, the “Cat Bookstore,” you can explore a themed collection of books on companionship, participate in a “Reading to Your Companion Animals” program, and sit in on “Book Talks with Cat Picture Book Authors.”

The exhibition will feature a wide range of over 100 ceramic and craft works, inspired by the theme of companionship, including companion plant pots, dishes, portraits, hanbok (traditional Korean clothing), urns, and even burial garments for special animals that have passed away.

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