![]() ![]() Such recurring motifs include magnolias, North Korea’s national flower, and the Chollima winged horse, which is a statue in the country’s capital Pyongyang. “Of course, there are some identifiable political sentiments, the most interesting being the recurrence of symbols and icons that are specific to North Korean traditions and nationhood.” “The exhibition is focused on domestic life, rather than political propaganda,” she says. The point of the show, says Ahmad, is not to portray North Korea as a politically-driven, propaganda machine, as it is so often perceived in the press, but to offer a new perspective by looking at everyday life there, from people’s smoking habits through to their love for the theatre or graphic novels. Show aims to look at “everyday life” in the country Spread over three rooms, the show will include everything from food packaging, ticket stubs and stamps to hand-painted posters and comics. ![]() It has been co-curated by the House of Illustration’s Olivia Ahmad and Bonner himself, and includes over 100 items from his personal collection of objects, which he has hoarded following multiple trips to North Korea over the last 20 years. Based on Nicholas Bonner’s book Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life in the DPRK, which was published last year, the new show is dedicated to the country’s graphics, illustrations, photography, packaging and more, and aims to provide a “window” into everyday life in “one of the world’s most controversial nations”, says Colin McKenzie, director at the House of Illustration. Made in North Korea, by Nicholas Bonner, published by Phaidon in 2017īut a new exhibition at London’s House of Illustration hopes to change this preconception. Best associated with its strict and totalitarian political regime under leader Kim Jong-un, and its threats of nuclear war, it is not a country seen to be at the forefront of typography and visual communication. North Korea, unsurprisingly, is not known for its graphic design. ![]()
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