CHANGE CARDS ACCORDING TO THE ROLE: OUR LABOUR

OUR LABOUR has grown steadily over the past decade and is expanding its business into the art world. Their work, such as the first exhibition, ‘Human, 7 questions’ at the reopened Leeum Museum of Art, objects within HYBE INSIGHT, and ‘OUR SET: OUR LABOUR × OSANG GWON’ recently presented at Suwon Museum of Art, demonstrate how OUR LABOUR have participated in exhibitions of various identities and range of expertise such as creative groups, space designers, artist, and planner. OUR LABOUR can do anything related to the exhibition format. We met with director Lee Chunghyung, who leads OUR LABOUR, and listened to their story.

Han Garam (Han): It has been 10 years since the creation of OUR LABOUR. Please give me a brief introduction to your activities.

Lee Chunghyung (Lee): The name OUR LABOUR began to be used in 2015, as it worked under the name ‘LABOUR’ before that point. At that time people often misheard ‘LABOUR’ as ‘Naver’ and members increased. So we decided to add ‘OUR’. Until now, OUR LABOUR tried to create its own stable structure and system in the art world. Our system is the result of constant coordination between a profitable business model that can maintain OUR LABOUR and the