Museum Hanmi presents the duo exhibition Young June KIM · Jiwon KIM at the Samcheong Annex as part of the 24/25 MH Talent Portfolio program. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the MH Talent Portfolio is a program that collaborates with artists in their 30s and 40s who work primarily with photography. Through an open call, six selected artists are matched with the most fitting format—be it a solo show, a duo exhibition, or an international portfolio review— in accordance with each artist’s practice. This exhibition introduces the continued practices of Young June KIM and Jiwon KIM, two artists who have consistently questioned familiar systems of perception and institutional structures through the body as their artistic medium.

Young June KIM, through his series Resemblance (2007–2023), explores the underlying aesthetic resemblance between the human body and nature, visualizing the tension that arises between them. Jiwon KIM, in her series The Hair of the Artist (2012–2020), documents her covert intervention into the institutional systems by secretly placing strands of her own hair in over 150 major museums across the world and photographing them. Using different strategies, the works of both artists create fissures in senses and perceptions, institutional systems and structures, quietly disrupting conventional visual order. Through this, the exhibition seeks to shed light on the potential of photography—not merely as a means of representation, but as another language that reconstructs and disturbs the framework of perception.