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The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.

The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.

This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.


2010 1. In My Mother’s Footsteps 2. Becoming

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작가Yishay GARBASZ
Yishay Garbasz was born in Israel and studied photography in New York. Much of her photographic work to date has featured the subjects of society, family and human rights. Many of those photographs are not merely records of some event; they are a product of the profound relationship she has with her own psychological state. It is the work In My Mother's Footsteps in particular that is representative of that relationship.
Every photograph produced from this journey in the photographic series, "In My Mother's Footsteps," is accompanied by her mother's handwritten memoir. This exhibition features approximately half of the 63 photographs that comprise the series.
A project undertaken by Garbasz in recent years is her photographic series "Becoming" that records in detail the process of her gender reassignment. Garbasz had actually started out in life as a "him" not a "her."
Her gender identity disorder had caused her to struggle with the divide that existed between her gender and society's idea of what a man was supposed to be. Just as she had resolved to confront her mother's past, or perhaps with even greater resolve, at the beginning of 2008, she decided to undergo a gender reassignment, Since that time, she has in front of a white backdropin a corner of her studio, regularly taken photographs of her completely naked form to observe at fixed points in time the process of a person changing from a man into a woman.
the photographs for "Becoming" in the end, in the same way as "In My Mother's Footsteps", do not attempt to impart to the viewer any necessary sublime tragedy, but rather in those photographs is firmly recorded a human figure, whousing the camera tripod as her crutch has stood up against the history and the society we all share.
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