The Principle of Uncertainty is an exhibition based on physicist Heisenberg’s quantum physics theory, Uncertainty Principle, according to which measuring a certain pair of particle properties is impossible because observation of one impacts and changes the other. In the age of uncertainty, wherein factual confirmation is nearly impossible whether it concerns public historical records or even personal memory, the artistic pursuit of reality or truth, and the subsequently emergent questions often generate new forms of artwork.

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea focuses on four contemporary artists whose artworks based on research and archival materials. They realize their visions through collective or personal memories that arise from a range of techniques, such as virtual reality devices and the new spatiotemporal structures they yield; analysis of images that have been recorded at the starting point of the capitalist economic system; the Middle East after the Lebanese war in its entangled political and religious landscape; and postcolonialism and geopolitics in Southeast Asia.

Questioning the value and meaning of art while reconfiguring public truth and personal recollections as the backgrounds of their works, and crossing the uncertain boundaries between reality and fictional worlds, these artists are leading a trend in contemporary art, with their works attracting considerable attention.