The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) has unveiled the four finalists for this year’s Korea Artist Prize: Lee Hai Min Sun, Hong Jin-hwon, Lee Jung-woo and Jeon Hyun-sun. Established in 2012, the annual prize, co-organized by the MMCA and the SBS Foundation, has championed promising and mid-career creatives who offer new perspectives on contemporary Korean art. Each year, four individuals or collectives are short-listed, with each finalist receiving 50 million won ($34,000) to develop new works for a dedicated exhibition. Through painting, Lee Hai Min Sun looks closely at everyday objects and reads in them the fragile presence of individuals. Her canvases dwell on figures and forms that seem to be on the verge of disappearance yet persistently remain at the margins. Hong is drawn to “intervening” in the power relations embedded in images. Working with photography, film and web programming, he tracks how scenes of protests and public gatherings are flattened into images. Lee Jung-woo turns to glitches within technological systems. In his latest work, he fee