On Collecting Time, the new acquisitions exhibition presents their 11 works collected by Nam June Paik Art Center from 2020 to 2021, an unprecedented era of long-term closure of art museums. In a ‘strange time’ when we were forbidden to meet face-to-face, the doors of the museum, making exhibitions and providing education, were also closed. During that time, Nam June Paik Art Center began collecting contemporary media art while waiting for the day to meet the audience again. The works collected then are shown in this exhibition.
This book accompanying the exhibition documents the research and exhibition process of acquiring and presenting works that deal with time.