Barrier-Free Exhibition
Special Exhibition to Enhance Artistic Accessibility
20 Artists With and Without Disabilities From Korea and Abroad
Over 70 Works on Display
Some people perceive the world through their eyes, while others understand it through their fingers. The barrier-free exhibition "Ten Fingers" at the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art takes its title from this context. By metaphorically likening ten fingers to two eyes, the exhibition suggests that sensory perception is not fixed, but constantly changes depending on age, physical condition, and environment.
This exhibition features approximately 70 works by 20 artists with and without disabilities from Korea and abroad. Through visual art, performance, sound art, and social design, the exhibition embodies the museum's practical considerations of accessibility and public engagement.
Most of the works are created with limitations on mainstream senses such as sight or hearing, encouraging viewers to imagine the sensory experiences and worlds of minorities. Highlights include a collaboration between photographer Jung Yeondu, who is visually impaired, and jazz musicians, Diane Borsato's exploration of artistic language through sign language gestures and choreography, and Kim Chaerin's reinterpretation of sculpture through sound and touch. Raumkon, who continues to create art with his left hand after a cerebral hemorrhage, presents chopstick tools designed to compensate for limited finger movement.
Kim Deokhee uses the property of paraffin, which melts and hardens depending on temperature, to envision the potential for unity in a turbulent society. Um Jeongsun, who has long explored the meaning of "seeing," combines the motifs of an eyeball and a telescope to reveal the ambivalent emotions inherent in vision.
Throughout the exhibition space, QR codes are available for visitors to scan and listen to audio descriptions by the visually impaired YouTuber "Oneshot Hansol." A sensory station also allows visitors to touch and experience the materials used in the artworks firsthand. In addition, the exhibition offers webtoon-style guides, sign language interpretation programs, and tactile explanation programs.
Starting from the 17th, the exhibition will screen documentaries such as "A Record of Blindness" and "Mr. Shiratori, Who Cannot See, Goes to See Art."
Kang Seungwan, director of the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, stated, "This exhibition reinterprets the plurality of senses and the philosophy of accessibility through the language of art, demonstrating that the museum can serve as a platform for inclusion and empathy. 'Ten Eyes' will be a space where social solidarity and artistic practice are explored through sensory experience, and where everyone can enjoy cultural rights in their own way."
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