BAE YOUNG-WHAN: SO NEAR SO FAR

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 combines a keen awareness of vernacular beauty with neo-conceptual strategies, Bae is a key figure in the influential, albeit loosely defined, post-minjung generation of contemporary Korean artists who emerged in the late 1990s reckoning with the repercussions of Korea’s turbulent modernity. Often making use of humble, mundane elements (discarded wood from construction sites, broken bottles, sentimental song lyrics), his art is attuned to the ephemeral surfaces as well as the deeper structures of feeling that underlie Korean society.