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Artist Yi Young Uk: A World of Uncanny Sensations Through Repetitive Imagery
Yi Young Uk (b. 1991) explores how the form of repetition functions effectively in contemporary contexts. For instance, he experiments with various organic expressions that break away from rigid formal frameworks—such as creating patterns through the repetition of realistically rendered images, deconstructing forms, or translating them from two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures.
2025.07.14
Exhibitions
《Deleted World: Dele’s Room》, 2024.04.01 – 2024.04.07, Rainbow Cube
Deleted World is an AI music film that unfolds by following the sounds of an android nun named Dele (@dele.world). Dele’s voice is generated through the learning of bodily sounds that are processed as errors. Borrowing this voice, the work produces inflammations that are damp, itchy, and unwelcome.
2024.04.01
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Mire Lee Wins Special Prize at the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize
Aziz Hazara (Afghanistan) is the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2021, the sixth edition of the global art prize for artists under 35, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The winner was announced by the international jury at the online award ceremony on 8 December. Aziz Hazara received a total of 100,000 USD: 60,000 USD as a cash prize, and 40,000 USD to fund their artistic practice.
2021.12.14
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《Night Studio》, 2013.10.26 – 2023.01.12, Art Sonje Center
Night Studio is a project by Jewyo Rhii in which the artist, in the form of a series of open houses, opened to the public the row house apartment in the Itaewon district of Seoul. She lived and worked in the place for approximately three years, beginning in 2008.
2013.10.25
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《Cosmetic Girls》, 2008.11.28 – 2009.01.23, Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery presents the exhibition 《Cosmetic Girls》 by photographer Heinkuhn Oh.
Since his ‘Ajumma’ series in 1999, Oh has continuously explored and visualized specific social groups and classes within Korean society. In the late 1990s, his series ‘Ajumma’ captured the anxious gaze of middle-aged
2008.11.28
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Artist Gimhongsok Translates Social Phenomena into Art
Gimhongsok (b. 1964) has been rearranging various social, political, and cultural phenomena through translation and appropriation in his works, starting from text-based works that rely on ambiguity to address the boundary between reality and fiction, for the past 20 years.
2024.07.16
