9 still life photographers claim new spotlight in AI era at Kukje Gallery

The Korea Times

9 still life photographers claim new spotlight in AI era at Kukje Gallery

In an age when artificial intelligence (AI) can generate slick images in seconds, Kukje Gallery is highlighting the power of a patient gaze and an optical lens. The gallery’s new photography exhibition, “Objects in Oscillation,” brings together nine leading Korean photographers whose still life works reclaim a genre long sidelined in the country’s contemporary art scene. Curated by Koo Bohn-chang, a pioneering photographer and educator who has helped integrate photography into Korean contemporary art, the show is a rare case for a Korean gallery to devote its exhibition spaces solely to still life photography. Koo said he wanted to make visible a group of artists who have been quietly expanding the possibilities of still life while receiving far less attention than their peers in documentary or conceptual photography. “I wanted to show that there are photographers in Korea working in very diverse ways, and that they should receive the attention and evaluation they deserve,” he said during a press walkthrough. Instead of relying on heavy digital manipulation or generative AI,

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