Installed on the wall connecting the first and second floors of the exhibition gallery, Current Exhibition references posters of exhibitions held at the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art over the past decade since it was inaugurated. The artist was provided with 91 exhibition poster files for the archives of the museum and removing most of the text information on the posters (such as exhibition title, date and venue, participating artists, and sponsorships). In cases where the poster design itself was based on text, the artist altered it in a way that compromised the readability of the text or typeface that organized the information. Once the information was deleted, the remaining images were printed and installed in chronological order.
Exhibition posters are typically visualizations of an exhibition work or theme. They function as temporary promotional materials created primarily for publicity purposes and displayed in public spaces, both online and offline, until they are replaced. Therefore, after a certain period of time has passed and the purpose of conveying information has been fulfilled, exhibition posters lose their relevance and are discarded. Current Exhibition repurposes such promotional items, which have expiration dates, by removing information from them. Posters with text removed come to exist as images by themselves, endowed with new vitality. As images replace the precise text, the work becomes a metaphor through a visual language for the shape of the future that wears out over time.