The Kyopo Project May 29, 2008

10:00 AM–5:00 PM, Monday through Friday Open to the Public and Free of Charge

There are millions of Koreans around the world that live far from Korea. These migrants are known in Korean as kyopo교포. Many have never set foot in their home country. Many more don’t speak Korean. The stories of their lives—lived in suspension between places, cultures and identities—are difficult to translate.

The Kyopo Project—a collection of over 100 photographic and literary portraits of overseas Koreans created by artist CYJO—is their record. Settled in places as geographically and culturally different at the United States, Denmark and Brazil, The Kyopo Project’s subjects are the faces of global trends towards transculturalism and transnationalism. CYJO’s prescient images of them alludes to photographic explorations of cultural duality by August Sanders, Walker Evans and Chien Chi Chang.

For more information, please contact Jinyoung Kim at (212) 759-7525, ext. 316 or jinyoung.ny@koreasociety.org.

Official Website: http://www.koreasociety.org/arts/gallery/the_kyopo_project.html