Care Index: Gestures of Care, 2025, Fabric, steel, interactive device, bell sound button, light, carpet, dimensions variable, produced in collaboration with INTG, CHERRYPLUM, Sound and Silence. Commissioned by MMCA. Courtesy of the artist. ⓒAlecia Neo.
Care Index: Scores for Caregiving, 2018, digital prints, 38.5 X 52 cm (X 6), 38.5 X 26 cm (X 3), 35.5 X 26 cm (X 5), Courtesy of the artist. ⓒ Alecia Neo. The participants in the photo series are caregivers from a community closely connected to the artist. Their handwritten letters were created in 2025.
Between Earth and Sky, 2018, single channel video, color, sound, video piece: 10 min. 5 sec., interview of the participants: 8 min. 12 sec. Courtesy of the artist. ⓒ Alecia Neo.
Looking After Each Other
May 16–July 20, 2025
May 16–July 20, 2025
MMCA Seoul presents Looking After Each Other, a thematic exhibition exploring the diverse conditions of different bodies and the possibilities that emerge from their interdependent relations. The exhibition reimagines the museum as a public space welcoming all bodies—those who are healthy, elderly, disabled, or living with illness—and as a site for experimenting with modes of encounter and relationship. It highlights aesthetic practices that challenge conventional notions of “vulnerable bodies” and offers strategies for embracing bodily difference, broadening awareness of corporeal diversity, and contributing to the common good through mutual care and understanding.
Organized around three interwoven themes—Inclining Bodies, Odd Communities, and When Different Bodies Meet—the exhibition features over 40 works by 15 artists and collectives across drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, design, and architecture. Rather than treating bodily difference as something to be observed or accommodated, the exhibition centers practices grounded in embodied critique, interdependence, and radical hospitality.
Between Earth and Sky
Between Earth and Sky is a video work based on the lived experiences of those who care for individuals with mental health conditions. Through a series of workshops, Neo invites each caregiver to translate their caregiving gestures into dance, revealing the nuanced emotional terrain of caregiving: the comfort of intimacy, the weight of grief and frustration, the reflexivity during urgent, unpredictable situations, and the enduring commitment to care. The work offers a deeply human portrait of how care is practised and sustained in everyday life.
The participants in the photo series are caregivers from a community closely connected to the artist. Their handwritten letters were created in 2025.
Care Index
Care Index: Scores of Caregiving presents a photographic sequence capturing the movements drawn from the experience of caregiving. The series invites viewers to imagine the dance continuing beyond the frame.
Care Index: Gestures of Care is a participatory installation where visitors are invited to reflect on their own experiences of care, by embodying and contributing new gestures.
Exhibition Catalogue: https://looking-after-each-other.neocities.org
Photo Credit: Hong Cheolki. Courtesy of MMCA.