Since photography began to be recognized as one of the most crucial media in contemporary art in the late 1990s, "art" photographs have flooded the contemporary art landscape, producing various methodologies and discourses. Against this backdrop, the "Document" exhibition reflects the very starting point of photography, i.e. the photograph as a "document" and objective observation, rather than as an art form.

It was in the early 1990s that photography found its place in art museums and galleries. Since then, many young artists have been experimenting with a wide array of photographic techniques to explore a broad spectrum of topics, and their efforts have played an important role in expanding the concepts and methods of photography.

Recently, various art magazines and galleries have run feature articles and curated special exhibitions to diagnose these trends in photography and introduce various discourses.

Meanwhile, however, the origin of photography as objective observation and documentation of reality is often overshadowed by such romantic projections of photography as art. In this regard, this exhibition is designed to revisit the photograph as a document, which has been relatively undervalued in Korean photography - how photography reproduces and structures objects and facts, reality and history, and how this praxis of photography is systematized into "knowledge."

To that end, the exhibition is divided into three themes: "Mr. Gubo goes to an exhibition," "From photography as document to photography as art," and "Attitudes of documentation."