Guided Tour: The Arc of Korean Images – From Photography to Digital Art

In celebration of the 140th anniversary of Korea-France diplomatic relations, Gallery BYGRIDA presents a guided tour exploring the continuous visual arc from traditional Korean photography to contemporary digital art. The exhibition reads Korea’s image culture as a complex visual history intertwined with tradition, modernity, historical wounds, and technological evolution.

From the aesthetics of emptiness and the ruptures of forced modernization to the memories of division and democratization, Korean photography has acted as both testimony and critical language. Today, this lineage expands into digital media, AI, XR, and algorithmic imagination, reconstructing memory as data.

Join Grida, founder of Gallery BYGRIDA, as she introduces this unique intersection of past and future, material and immaterial. Discover how contemporary Korean artists translate historical memory and traditional aesthetic refinement into the global digital stage.

MEMORY MATTER MEDIA
: THE KOREAN IMAGE FROM PHOTOGRAPHY TO DIGITAL ART

Artists:
Andrés Gallardo Albajar, Bosul Kim, ChangKi CHUNG, Dave Kulesza, Doyoung Kim, Han Sungpil, HyeGyung Kim, Hyung-Geun Park, Ilan Derech, Justin Aversano, Jason Kim, ManKyung, Miji YOON, NAKTA, OWA-7HO, Regina Kim, SEOHYO, SIM Moby, Uttermelon, Yeonjeong Jang

Gallery BYGRIDA