Looking After Each Other
May 16–July 20, 2025
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul30 Samcheong-ro, Jongno-gu03062 SeoulSouth Korea
Artists: Panteha Abareshi, Cho Youngjoo, Choi Taeyoon x Yon Natalie Mik, Chun Kyungwoo, Richard Dougherty, Irene Cheng x David Gissen x Brett Snyder, GuNA, Sara Hendren x Caitrin Lynch, Christine Sun Kim, Kim Eunseol, Kim Wonyoung x Chung Ji Hye, Kim Yongok x Cho Mikyeong x Lee Jinhee, Alecia Neo, Yoon Choong-geun, Yoon Sangeun
MMCA Seoul presents Looking After Each Other, a thematic exhibition exploring the diverse conditions of different bodies and the possibilities that emerge from their interdependent relations. The exhibition reimagines the museum as a public space welcoming all bodies—those who are healthy, elderly, disabled, or living with illness—and as a site for experimenting with modes of encounter and relationship. It highlights aesthetic practices that challenge conventional notions of “vulnerable bodies” and offers strategies for embracing bodily difference, broadening awareness of corporeal diversity, and contributing to the common good through mutual care and understanding.
Organized around three interwoven themes—Inclining Bodies, Odd Communities, and When Different Bodies Meet—the exhibition features over 40 works by 15 artists and collectives across drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, design, and architecture. Rather than treating bodily difference as something to be observed or accommodated, the exhibition centers practices grounded in embodied critique, interdependence, and radical hospitality.