by Ophelia Lai
JUNG YOONSUKâs
Tomorrow (2020) at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA). Image via MMCA’s Facebook. Installation view of
JUNG YOONSUKâs
Tomorrow (2020) at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA). Image via MMCA’s Facebook.
A project on the manufacture and consumption of sex dolls has proved too risqué for audiences at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA). Presented in the 2020 Korea Artist Prize exhibition, finalist Jung Yoonsuk’s
Tomorrow (2020), a two-hour documentary film accompanied by a series of lightbox photographs and moving-image installations, has attracted a slew of complaints posted to the MMCA’s social media, including calls to remove the work from public view.