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Artist Eunju Hong: On the Fragility and Violence Embedded in the History of Technological Progress
Eunju Hong (b. 1993) views the process of technological evolution as a reflection of human desire, focusing on the fragility and violence inherent within it. Based on research into the history of technological development, the artist employs performance, experimental video, and installation to elevate the collisions between technology and emotion, matter and memory into a form of poetic tension, attentively examining the points where personal and social wounds overlap.
2026.01.12
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Artist Seeun Kim Translated the Visual Dynamism of Space into Paintings
Seeun Kim (b. 1989) has been developing a painterly language that translates the visual dynamism triggered by her experiences of urban spaces and structures. She observes the visual rules and structures that emerge within the continuously constructed and modified urban environment, focusing on the "nameless" spaces left behind in this process.
2025.04.01
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[Critique] The Helping Vowel
In 1884, the International Meridian Conference was convened in Washington, DC, to fix “upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time-reckoning throughout the globe.”
2023
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[Critique] Yunchul Kim: Literal Encounter of the Laminated Reality
Visualizing imperceptible matter and photonic flow, Yunchul Kim’s works make the viewers imagine the vast field of energy operating them. Needless to say, the energy is something undetectable by human senses, therefore difficult to recognize as a subject of materiality, but it’s precisely this energy that Kim seeks to materialize into a perceptible reality. His works have adhered to the extended contexts of this idea. Readers can experience for themselves this recognition of unrecognizable energy at Kim’s solo exhibition 《Glare》 (Barakat Contemporary, September 19 - November 17, 2019).
2019.10.01
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《The 13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirit Tuning》, 2021.04.01 – 2021.05.09, Gwangju
The 13th Gwangju Biennale, 《Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning》, explores the spectrum of the “extended mind” as both an artistic and theoretical proposition. The exhibition delves into expansive cosmologies, activating manifold forms of intelligence, Earth’s life-systems, and communal modes of survival, while confronting the looming
2021.03.31
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[Critique] Life-ness contained in the uselessness and the abandoned
In October 2006, Venue the planning room in the National Modern Art Museum. There stood wooden tiles that had endured a number of trains for a long time. Those had been lying in the wide empty plane and ran suddenly to stand in this place as if they had received some sort of oracle. Their outcry
2006
