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Artist Seungjoon Song: Artistic Attempts to Dismantle the Dichotomy Between Humans and Nature
Seungjoon Song (b. 1993) reexamines the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the concept of nature and explores how the biases and misconceptions produced by this concept shape and regulate our reality. Using “design” as a mediating tool to dismantle the dualistic thinking between humans and nature, he redefines the notion of nature from an interrelational, ecological perspective.
2025.12.01
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[Column] Kim Heecheon: Beyond the Consensus in a Racing World
Kim Heecheon (b. 1989) graduated from the Department of Architecture at the Korea National University of Arts. He has held solo exhibitions at notable institutions, including Hayward Gallery (2023), Art Sonje Center (2019), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, DOOSAN Gallery New York (2018), and Common Center (2015).
2023
Exhibitions
《Re-wind》, 2018.05.11 – 2018.06.07, out-sight
Shin Jungkyun has been working around issues of the military, national security, ideologies and conspiracy theories to expose anxieties that are latent in the divided Korea.
2018.05.11
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[Critique] Why Was He Compelled to Talk about “Isolation”?
I’ve gotten used to hearing words like “anxiety,” “listlessness,” and “depression” coming out of people’s mouths. All around, we see an ineluctable “eternal present” – the product of overheated neoliberal competition and a debt society – and the resulting existential crisis.
2015
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《DNA of Coreanity》, 2017.01.03 - 2017.05.07, Wooyang Art Museum
Depending on a country's history and the culture formed within it, people pursue diverse values. In a time of accelerating globalization, seeking to understand the civilizations formed through regional and ethnic identities through the lens of "culture" constitutes a proactive form of "exchange."
2017.01.01
