Thematic exhibition in Gwangju Memory: Reflecting on Life has been arranged to look back on stories about human lives.
The exhibition showcases one hundred artifacts from the past selected from the collections of important museums in Korea and overseas.
These include clay works shaped like human figures or that allude to human lives, such as Korean clay figurines, Chinese tancient haniwa figurines.
Also presented at the exhibition are thirty contemporary ceramic works that reinterpret stories embodied in artifacts, telling diverse stories about people in the past.
Thematic exhibition in Icheon Story: About Life presents works by six foreign ceramic artists who opened the gate to narrative ceramics and twenty ceramic artists from both home and abroad active today.
The exhibition is divided into two sections. Section 1 introduces works about self-awareness of individuals, and section 2 consists of works that depict individuals in a group and a society.
Thematic exhibition in Yeoju Pray: Cherishing Life shows two-hundred thirty urns by contemporary ceramic artists who suggest possibilities for future ceramic culture.
This exhibition intends to discover a narrative formative style that commemorates and symbolizes one’s life through urns, which naturally embody the concept of life-and-death.
Addressing ‘death,’ which was long a taboo subject, this exhibition intends to create a new concept of urns as our last and new resting place, through which we aim to extend the realm of ceramics.