Collection, Reframed: Jiha Moon

Collection, Reframed is an annual summer exhibition series that invites contemporary artists and creative visionaries to engage with the Bechtler Museum’s permanent collection, creating new dialogues between past and present. For this iteration, artist Jiha Moon brings together a selection of works that explore representations of women across time, considering both how they have been depicted by others and how they have shaped their own image. Moving fluidly between historical and contemporary voices, the exhibition also focuses on figures that are partially obscured or hidden within the composition—inviting close looking and layered interpretation.

 

Works from the museum’s holdings by artists including Alberto Giacometti, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and Walasse Ting are presented alongside those by contemporary artists such as Julie Curtiss, Gina Gilmour, and Elizabeth Turk. Through these juxtapositions, Moon highlights recurring tensions between visibility and concealment, agency and subjectivity, and presence and absence.

 

The exhibition features Moon’s own work as well, extending these themes through her distinctive visual language that draws on a wide range of cultural references and art historical traditions. At once anchoring and complicating the exhibition’s central questions, Moon’s contributions offer new ways of seeing the museum’s collection and the figures—both visible and concealed—within it.