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https://the-ref.kr/exhibition.detail.php?sca=past&wr_id=102

In June 2025, we invite you to the 2nd chapter of our international photography exchange series: New Pictures.

In this chapter, New Pictures, photography’s inherent sensibility fows through light and time, transforming into video, object, and book.

If the “Pictures” group led by Douglas Crimp in the 1970s redrew the boundary between painting and photography, today’s photography moves even further—beyond the frame, beyond the still image. Photographic perception now unfolds as narrative.The terrain of media is constantly shifting. As printed photobooks, as projected slideshows—photography no longer remains fxed in one place.

This exhibition features 6 artists, each selected by curators Nathalie Boseul Shin (Korea) and Shuichi Iketani (Japan). Through different languages and visual vocabularies, these artists quietly—yet profoundly—sketch a “new picture” that lies beyond the photographic frame.

So, can we still call this photography?

Perhaps photography—like the Big Bang that sparked the birth of the universe—contains within it the seed of a new way of sensing the world.

New-Pictures

LEE Dongkeun, LEE Ye-eun, JANG Boyun, KIMURA Kazuhei, SHINTSUBO Kenshu, HAMAMOTO Kanade

Curated by Kim Jeong Eun, Nathalie Boseul Shin, IKETANI Shuichi
Graphic Design by ao graphics
Fabrication and Installation by Jang Junho
Coordinated by Hyun Gabi
Hosted by The Reference
Supported by Arts Council Korea, T3 Photo Festival Tokyo
* This exhibition was produced with the support of “2025 ARKO Partners Visual Art”