Lighting Designers
Cultural Projects "Rehearsals Exhibition"

The Korean Cultural Centre in London “Rehearsals" from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive Exhibition forms part of the 2017-2018 Korea/UK season. This cultural project exhibition explores the development of South Korea’s performance art scene during the late 60s and 70s. The art on display was created in an atmosphere of rebellion against an inflexible political regime.

This was the 6th exhibition that SMA design has assisted the Korean Cultural Centre on the exhibition design layout, installation and lighting of the exhibitions.

Unusually this exhibition had live performances by Kun-yong Lee’s, one of which is his re-enactment of his 1979 Snail’s Gallop performance.

Therefore our lighting designers (cultural projects) had to position the lighting perfectly to work with the artist, as well as lighting the art to its optimum. This meant a compromise had to be struck, so that visitors could appreciate both the art on display and enjoy the live art performance.

Over 100 LED light fittings were used throughout the art galleries which were fitted with various lighting filters to highlight this amazing art exhibition. It is certainly the best implemented cultural exhibition project to date at the Korean Cultural Centre.

The different time periods of these cultural projects were lit using different colour temperature of light, for example the older 1960’s art used 4000k (Kelvin) whilst the later works had 5000K a more cool whiter light. This change in light temperature also aided the delineation of the works.

All of the improvements to the galleries lighting, filters and controls were used to their full to maximise the striking imagery on display.