국립현대미술관

The film “What's the Time in Your World(2014),1)” which lends its title to this exhibition, begins with a single photograph from hometown that had left over two decades ago. Just as the photograph in the film summoned the protagonist to a specific time in the past, this exhibition began in the hope that the photographs kept in the museum's storage would transport viewers to specific landscapes and times.

The exhibition MMCA Photographs Collection: What's the Time in Your World? present around 200 photographs, which were curated from MMCA’s collection consisting of 1,316 photographs, and the selected works depict scenes of the real world we live in. The exhibition unfolds them under three themes: the city as the physical foundation of our lives (in The City Comes Before Your Eyes), the lives of individuals as they change over time (in The Way to Retrieve Images from the Passage of Time), and the historical and social events that traverse them (in What's the Time in Your World?). The photographs illustrate the changing landscape of the times, while also interpreting the individual lives and trace the technological changes in the photography as a medium. By displaying photographs by various artists from the 1950s to the 2000s, the exhibition reminds us that times and generations are not separate from one another.

1) What’s the Time in Your World?, directed by Safi Yazdanian (2014; Road Film).