We invite you to a reception celebrating two very special openings: Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes 1945 - 1992, a photography exhibit featuring thirteen of Korea’s pioneering photographers and Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today, a film series at MoMA showcasing the work of eleven of Korea’s best known contemporary filmmakers. The evening will feature special remarks by Directors Hong Sang-soo (In Another Country), Lee Sang-cheol (Jesus Hospital), and exhibit curator, Chang Jae Lee. Please join us for an evening of art and refreshments!

Opening Reception

Wednesday, September 19, 2012
6 PM-8 PM

Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes 1945 - 1992
Experience the captivating imagery in this collection of fifty-four photographs by the first generation of Korean realists. This exhibition marks the first time these original black and white photographs have been mounted in the U.S. and reveals the everyday life of Korea’s nearly forgotten recent past. These photographs are documentary but at the same time aesthetically charged, illustrating and illuminating the traces and trails of Korean life as seen through Korean eyes.

Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today
This third edition of Yeonghwa, presented in collaboration with MoMA, includes 11 distinctive contemporary narratives, from superior genre films to unclassifiable features by some of Korea’s leading renegade filmmakers. For a complete list of the schedule and films being shown at MoMA, please click here.