Installation view of 《Yang Ah Ham: Undefined Panorama》 ⓒ Art Sonje Cetner
Art Sonje Center
presents a solo exhibition 《Yang Ah Ham: Undefined Panorama》, by artist Yang Ah Ham, on view through October 4.
The exhibition focuses
on Yang Ah Ham’s ongoing long-term research project ‘Undefined Panorama’ (2018-), which aims to
reconsider our ways of understanding the world. In addition to Ham’s new work Undefined Panorama 4.0 (2026), the
exhibition will also include other works created over the course of her
project, alongside archival materials.
‘Undefined Panorama’ began with a question the artist posed to themself in the wake of
the tragic event that shook Korean society in 2014: “What
should I do as an artist?” Confronted with the collapse
of social systems and the suffering experienced by individuals and communities
as a result, the artist embarked on a long-term inquiry into the conditions of
contemporary society.
The artist’s
signature series, ‘Undefined Panorama’, has developed as a video installation project that constructs
narrative structures through the collection, classification, and abstraction of
data drawn from various spheres of modern life, including finance, politics,
technology, education, and labor.
Through this project,
the artist traces major events and social issues that have shaped contemporary
society—including widening economic inequality and the environmental crisis
intensified by the transition from industrial capitalism to financial
capitalism and, more recently, to data capitalism. In doing so, the work
reflects on the anxiety and suffering generated by these transformations while
exploring possibilities for future coexistence.
《Yang Ah Ham: Undefined
Panorama》 unfolds as both a “well” that draws up individual stories and a “public
square” where we can collectively reflect on the
society we inhabit. Building upon the extensive research and artistic
investigations accumulated through the project, the exhibition invites viewers
to reconsider the relationships between self and other, human and nonhuman,
individual and community, and to imagine ways of living together within an
interconnected world of circulation and mutual dependence.
