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Page 1 of 2 EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
The Perpetual Moment-Visions from within Okinawa and Korea
October 17, 2004 to December 13, 2004
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents a group exhibition composed of photographs of United States military bases that have been in existence since 1945 in territories of third-party nation states - Okinawa (designated as a part of Japanese territory) and on the Korean Peninsula (where the Korean nation is still divided) - and the reality that surrounds them. Questioning whether photography's role of documenting facts persuades a viewer to truthfully consider the complex history that precedes the reality depicted in a photograph, the exhibition explores the difference between the decisive moment for photography and that of history. The Perpetual Moment also places documentary photography into the context of contemporary art, which devises ingenious ways to reveal the reality of our time and the truth of the here and now.
Because the raison d'etre of documentary photography is rooted in fact, the practitioner's motive and motif are irreversible. Until recently many of the photographs published through the mass media machine, images which to a large extent are inseparable from a societal memory of the 20th Century, were taken by professionals who were removed from the places and people they depicted. In contrast, the "concerned" or "conscientious" photographers in this exhibition captured their own place and history from within, revealing through an insider's perspective how one decisive moment persists over time.
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