The inaugural exhibition of South Korea’s first public museum dedicated to photography—the Photo SeMA—engaged in dialogue with the institution’s archives (comprising 20,000 works and documents), its surroundings, and a building designed in the shape of a camera shutter. Safia Belmenouar discusses the works of the six artists who approached the museum “a living space in which multiple experiences, narratives, and reinterpretations intersected.” The exhibition explored the very notion of collecting, presenting the Photo SeMA as “a place of fertile tensions rather than a museified space.”