The artistic director of fontaine b. Ms. Chiara Valci Mazzara together with Mr. Kim Do Hyeong on behalf of Daegu Photo Biennale and Daegu Arts Center is pleased to invite you to the opening of Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition 2019.

The show is a first step of the Biennale into the city of Berlin, focusing on two artists based in Korea and two Berlin based artists. The aim is to present a special exhibition developed to initiate the encounter between Korean and European contemporary art through the medium of photography and in the frame of Daegu Photo Biennale.

Through the selection of artists and their specific works, the exhibition explores the differences and similarities between the artists from different geographical locations and their various systems of references, in order to presents a cohesive, yet multi-faced show. The theme of the show is the idea of MorphO (so written, where Morph-is the ever-changing pattern of the matter — figuratively and literally — and the O is an attempt to contain it and embrace it at the same time: like a circle). MorphO, not metamorphosis neither morphosis, stands for the root of the word: ‚morph‘ as for its etymological meaning. MorphO refers to the shape, the change, the form of the object, the matter, its content, its form. The friction created by an ever-changing shape and the ever-changing pieces in reference to each other creates a dialogue based on a new system of references. The aesthetics are different yet similar, based on a common intensity of the photographic investigation. The portable pressure is the pressure of the object, the physical weight and, figuratively, the one given by its past and its new content, its story and new life when translated in photographic works or in sculptural volumes.

A catalogue produced and published on the occasion of the exhibition will be available to the guests.

The exhibition will open with a vernissage Friday, August 23rd 2019, 18.00 and will be running for two weeks, closing with a special event on Saturday September 7th, 2019, 18.00.