Kim Beom at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
June 28, 2009–September 20, 2009

Organized by Los Angeles County Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea features a generation of artists who have emerged since the mid-1980s—some well-known and others on the brink of such recognition—all of whom work on the cutting-edge of international art trends and within a distinctly Korean context.

Kim Beom questions Korean mass media in Untitled (News) (2002), for which he edited together numerous television news broadcasts in clips short enough to alter what the reporters were saying. Instead of reporting on events of the day, these familiar figures spout statements that vacillate between the inane and poignant. Using humor, the work questions whether the actual words of such television personalities are more enlightening than the ones that Kim has put in their mouths.

curated by Lynn Zelevansky, LACMA’s
Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art;
Christine Starkman, MFAH Curator of Asian Art;
and Sunjung Kim, Director of Samuso: Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.


artists;
Bahc Yiso, Choi Jeong-Hwa, Gimhongsok, Jeon Joonho, Kim Beom, Kimsooja, Koo Jeong-A, Minouk Lim, Jooyeon Park, Do Ho Suh, Haegue Yang and the collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries