TZUSOO,
The Eight Spirits of Flesh – TAE, 2025, Video, color, sound,
Music: Maarten Vos / 3D Graphics Team: Lloyd Marquart, Zion Zion Konig /
Editing Assistant: Sohee Kim ©MMCAThe first exhibition of the MMCA×LG OLED series, presented in
collaboration between the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
(MMCA) and LG Electronics, 《Agarmon Encyclopedia: Leaked Edition》, is being held at MMCA Seoul Box through February 1, 2026.
The MMCA×LG OLED series is a futuristic project that goes beyond
the intersection of digital and contemporary art to explore possibilities for
expansion in visual art today. TZUSOO, selected in 2025 as the project’s
inaugural artist, deftly captures the sensibilities and contemporary emotions
of the digital native generation, and has built an original visual language at
the boundary of the cyber ecosystem and physical reality.
TZUSOO,
Still image from The Eight Spirits of Flesh – The Eight
Islands, 2025 ©MMCAIn this exhibition, the artist integrates her worldview, formed
over a long period of time, and senses, offering a compelling illustration of
the fundamental topics of life, desire and endless circulation through
technological media and material forms. The exhibition title, 《Agarmon Encyclopedia: Leaked Edition》,
refers to a situation in which a worldview centered on Agarmon, an organism
created by the artist, has for some reason begun appearing in the human world.
Seoul Box, located at the hub of MMCA Seoul’s exhibition halls,
abandons its identity as a familiar venue, transforming into a strange yet
organic space where life, extinction, and rebirth intertwine.
TZUSOO,
Agarmon 5, 2025, Agar, moss, piercing, 15x13x18cm. In
collaboration with Independent Garden ©MMCAWithin the Seoul Box, expanded into an ecosystem where a
perpetual digital world meets sculptures that evolve overtime, viewers
encounter female desires relating to the creation of life, cycles of nature,
and the myriad emotions and energies derived from these processes.
The faithful color reproduction and resolution of OLED displays
form a powerful synergy with the aesthetic approach of the artist, who has
constructed a virtuoso sculptural language using digital media. This sensual
landscape, filling the Seoul Box, questions the things that transcend
technology and must be sensed by art: bodies, bonding, the power of
regeneration, and imperfect life (beautiful for its imperfection).
