Exhibition Information

Installation view

Installation view

			Introduction
Celebrating the 4th anniversary of the opening of the National Center for Asian Culture and the 40th anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement in 2020, <Her Name Is> designed to spread the values of democracy, human rights and peace in Asia.
As a preparation for this, the Center for Democratic and Peaceful Exchange of the Asian Cultural Center established a cooperative network with institutions from all over Asia, starting with the Forum on the Democracy, Human Rights and Peace Network in May. This exhibition is the first project of cooperation on the extension, and is joined by the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum.

Exhibition Guide
Within the framework of the exhibition, <Her Name Is> reconstructs the historical debris of Bangladesh and deals with the issue of women’s human rights hidden in modern and contemporary history. At the same time as we understand the modern history of Bangladesh through the exhibition, we will have the opportunity to discover and recognize the historical issues that must be shared by many Asian countries, namely the colonies and wars, and to look at the parallel modern history of the entire Asian country from the perspective of women. Looking at history from a woman's perspective means that the exhibition, away from religious beliefs and political ideologies, leads the audience to shift their perspectives and understand them from a typewriter's point of view. It will also be an attempt to read modern Asian history from the perspective of women, from the perspective of the socially weak. It comes from the desperate desire that the things that we should respect and protect in our lives go to a situation where we don't, and that we're putting a lot of other interests first, that we're missing important things, and that we don't want the same mistakes to be repeated.


Exhibition planning

Oh Sun-Young
Independent curator Oh Sun-young is exploring how art connects and expands to the region and society. And they are paying attention to "relationships" and "difference of views" that are revealed in the process. With these keywords of interest at the center, the government has been planning [Project 7 ½] since 2014 for research into more specific artistic practices on how art functions in the region and society. [Project 7 1⁄2] has been moved to Seoul (Munrae-dong, Jangsa-dong, Arko Art Museum, Ansan Indonesia Migrant Community), Gimhae (Haehae Cultural Center, Gimhae Migrant's House, Gimhae Migrant and Workers), Jakarta (National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta History Museum), and Jati Wangyi (Subba-ju, Indonesia) are still drifting.

Amena Cartoon
Amena Katun is an exhibition designer and an Akivist at the Independence War Museum in Bangladesh. She studied palm leaves and paper in India between 2000 and 2001 and completed a postgraduate certification course for archiving at the University of Hong Kong. Since then, he has designed exhibitions in various fields, including Bangladesh police and the Independence War Museum.
Her signature design exhibitions are <A Large Collection of the Documents of Liberation War>, <Collection of Sector Commander Major General M.A. Mazur>, <From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Future >, <Great things are achieved through great sacrifices>, <World Refugee Day>.