Episode 05: Homin and Jaehwan at the Seoul Museum of Art
The power of the legacy of storytelling
“Homin and Jaehwan” is a duo exhibition featuring the works of Joo Jaehwan and his son Joo Homin. Joo Jaehwan is an artist who presents with humor insight on the key issues in Korea. His son Homin is a renowned “webtoon” (online comics) creator who rose to stardom for his webtoon exploring the notion of the afterlife in Korean mythology.
The exhibition centers on how the role of artists as storytellers has evolved and manifested differently across generations and integrates images and text as a common means of storytelling. We can see also the artists’ storytelling methods according to their respectively dissimilar personalities and media of choice
Both Jaehwan and Homin explore deeply Korean society from their works. In Joo Jaehwan’s works, the text serves as a poetic metaphor that triggers the viewers’ imaginations of the narrative implied in the works. On the other hand, Joo Homin’s works explicitly present text as a narrative message in the comics-like speech bubbles, providing a more cinematic experience of imagination.
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SeMa
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Exhibition Period:21.05.18-21.08.01
Opening hours
Weekdays:: 10 AM ~ 8PM
SAT·SUN·National Holidays] Summer Season(3-10Month)10AM~7PM Winter Season(11-2Month)10AM~6PM [Culture Day] 7PM~10PM Last Wednesday (Culture Day) [Closing Days]Every Week MON
Free Admission
