South Korean Anthropocene Art Featured in Videobrasil Online Exhibition

The online exhibition 'Anthropocene: Korea x Brazil 2019-2021' presents 11 audiovisual works by six contemporary South Korean women artists on the Videobrasil platform. Curated by Juhyun Cho, chief curator at Seoul's Ilmin Museum of Art, the show runs throughout January, offering unlimited access. It results from a broader cooperation project initiated in 2019 between Associação Cultural Videobrasil and the Ilmin Museum, which first presented Brazilian artists in Seoul. The planned physical exhibition in Brazil with Sesc migrated online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The works, ranging from 5 to 35 minutes, explore dystopian visions of the Anthropocene through fragmented narratives set in locations like the Korean DMZ, Seoul's streets, a Nigerian village, Paris, and the Brazilian Amazon. Themes include AI, militarism, feminism, and global crises. Cho emphasizes the project's aim to showcase a non-Western perspective on the Anthropocene and build solidarity among victims of capitalist exploitation. The exhibition will be followed on February 1st by a solo show of Ayoung Kim, a prominent South Korean artist who represented her country at the 2015 Venice Biennale.