Made in Popland intends to examine how the ‘pop art’ of our times unfolds itself. The works featured in this exhibition employ pop art-like tactics with which we are familiar, but they are different from the works of the historical Pop Art in terms of both style and content. They comment on the political, economic and cultural realities of the societies in which they were made and show various codes reflective of the social phenomena in which they are produced and consumed. In spite of their great distance from the definition of the art historical Pop Art, they let one to ponder upon the pop art of the present times in the respect that they are made through Pop Art-like strategies on the basis of the pop culture of our times. This exhibition examines the pages of the pop art of our times through the life of the Asian public, and hopefully it will provide an opportunity to deliberate on what today’s pop art should be.
