Installation view © MMCA

The MMCA Children's Museum of Art presents 《Dear My Forest》, an exhibition interconnecting people, art, the art museum itself, and nature, as it starts within the walls of the MMCA Gwacheon venue and spills out into the mountain path and its nested mountainscape.

Fifteen works by nine artists are presented, each work an expression of nature across unforgettable encounters and elucidating meditations. The overarching experience of the exhibition is of the multitudinous biodiversity of forest ecosystems which speak for the value of coexistence, as well as the mysteries that drive nature’s dynamic shifts.

Dear My Forest: A Step Closer is the first space of the exhibition, connecting the urban space and the forest, the museum and nature, museum visitors and art works. The sixteen windows of the MMCA Children's Museum of Art greet visitors with digital views into the story of the forest, from moss to mushrooms.

Dear My Forest: A Pace or Two the Trees is a participatory space, connecting the forest flora to that of the art works. Encounter the work-tools for forest-living, and the work journaling twelve months of time in terms of trees’ colors.

Dear My Forest: the Triple Step Gala is where our stories are told and put in the limelight, and the forest fauna are connected to the animals in the art works. Appreciate the artists’ works and introduce your own forest animals.

Dear My Forest: the Four-Fold Veil is a space of nature’s mysteries and hidden changes. Here, visitors encounter works depicting cherished moments in nature, as well as forays into the unseen. Pay close attention and tune into the quiet rustle of nature captured in the art works.

To all young learners walking the mountain path to the MMCA Children's Museum, we hope to provide encounters with contemporary art as diverse as the forest ecosystem and as sure as the need for harmony. The forest is revealed in new imaginative ways for each learner exploring the path one step before the other, and surely the exploration is just beginning with the first five steps!

You art invites in to Dear My Forest, one, two, three, four steps in! What mysteries wait within?

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