The 16th Jeonju International Film Festival unveils Special Exhibition Programs!

- ‘WANG Bing: Art of Observation’ | ‘100 Films, 100 Posters’

The 16th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jeonju IFF) unveils Special Exhibition Programs that combine movies, photographs, and design. The two exhibitions are ‘WANG Bing: Art of Observation’ and ‘100 Films, 100 Posters’ which display photos and video clips of Chinese experimental video artist, WANG Bing, and 100 specially-produced posters of the 16th Jeonju IFF’s official selections, each made by 100 Korean graphic designers, respectively.

‘WANG Bing: Art of Observation’ illuminates both pictures and media works by WANG Bing who has made active collaboration between photos and videos. The exhibition will be run as a combination program, which simultaneously operates theater screenings and gallery displays. As a mini-exhibition form for ‘Special Focus’, it will screen WANG Bing’s latest video clips, which are Father and Sons(2014), Traces(2014), and Man with No Name(2010). Along with those 3 films, 40 pictures that have already been displayed at The Centre Pompidou in France and in Spain will be installed at Jeonju Digital Independent Cinema. In cooperation with ‘Galerie Paris-Beijing’ which owns WANG Bing’s pictures, experimental video artist JEON Hayoung joins as a curator.

For ‘100 Films, 100 Posters’, 100 young and creative graphic designers who lead Korean graphic design scene have been selected. As a combination program, it has attracted numerous International directors from casting stage. 100 designers each pick one of the 16th Jeonju IFF’s official selections and describe the inspiration they get through posters. The posters will be displayed on ‘Cinema Street’ and at cafes, galleries, and streets of ‘Hanok Village’ exclusively for 16th Jeonju IFF.

Meanwhile, WANG Bing will visit Jeonju to attend ‘Master Class’ about ‘photographs and movies’ during the festival period. In ‘Master Class’, he will talk about his various artistic careers about movies, pictures, and videos as well as behind stories about his works. The two exhibitions will be open free during the 16th Jeonju IFF, which will be held from Thursday, April 30 to Saturday, May 9.