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their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.
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From Phnom Penh to Seoul: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art in the Asia Pacific
Two decades of contemporary art across the Asia Pacific, from Phnom Penh to Seoul. How the region built its own centres of gravity.
YIM TAE KYU
Korean contemporary art is not a trend. It is the product of a specific and irreducible national experience — Han, Gwangju, the DMZ, the speed of modernisation — that is now being recognised by the world's most important institutions at exactly the moment the global art market is hungry for it. Yim Tae Kyu has been painting the Marginal Man on hanji paper with Indian ink and cartoon precision for years. Mire Lee just filled the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. The world caught up last. The artists were already there.
“Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.”