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To the furthest verge

17-Oct-07
I-MYU's new gallery space was launched last week with a show by two Korean and one Korean-American artist. The gallery itself is situated in the slightly unfashionable north-east fringes of the City. Unfashionable at least from the perspective of us City types, but if your eyes stray slightly northwards on the map from I-MYU's street the nearest "village" is trendy Hoxton, home of a lively arts scene. The artists exhibiting in this opening show all address the past in various ways -- in fact Traditional yet Contemporary can almost be seen as the theme for many Korean artists over the past forty years. Yet they also explore other aspects. Debbie Han's work on display falls into two categories: ceramics and photography. In ...