“Second Impact” Installation view ©Suwon Museum of ArtThe Suwon Museum of Art presents “Second Impact”, a permanent exhibition of its 2024 collection, until March 3, 2025. The exhibition consists of two parts, with the first part running until September 22 and the second part starting on October 1 after some works are replaced.
“Second Impact” is an exhibition that introduces the collections of Suwon Museum of Art under the theme of ‘originals and copies’. Just as photography has been controversially established as an art genre, artworks produced by 3D printers and generative AI in the future will also require a complex process of consensus. The exhibition explores the complex relationship between the original and the replica, as each enhances the value of the other, attempts to replace it, or mediates a new original. The exhibition is designed to be appreciated from a variety of perspectives, with questions about the nature and value of art raised in the process.
In this exhibition, Suwon Museum of Art examines ‘originals and copies’ from three different perspectives. The first is the view of originality as a state to be reclaimed and its sole value, in which the original is irreplaceable and unique and has a transcendent hierarchy over the copy. Second, we might focus on the circumstances and factors through which all things become copies. This is a perspective that leads to the question of what is new? Finally, there is the relational perspective that focuses on the connection between the original and the copy.
This exhibition uses the collection of the Suwon Museum of Art to examine the works featured through the lens of the three mentioned above. Beyond that, it hopes to encourage an examination of the self through the sharing of legal definitions, appreciation methods, and thought experiments related to originals and copies.
