Kim Bo-Kyong's "A Rhytmical Metropolis" introduces the idea of the city being a database of people's thoughts and ideas, the city being this place that blends and intertwines new ideas and cultures. The physical infrastructure of the city reminds us of a huge, motionless figure, but the human beings who live their daily lives in it add dynamism and soul. In the city everything and everyone is interconnected.
The curves on the canvas, like a labyrinth, where the starting point and the ending point are unknown, have a spatial sense of unfathomable depth and induce imagination filled with infinite meaning.
Icheon Municipal Woljeon Museum of Art presents "Encyclopedia of Ghosts", an exhibition where visitors can meet the monsters that appear in various forms through folktales and folk images. 6 artists and 30 pieces will be on display until October 3rd. The show spotlights traditional Korean beliefs and how these imaginary creatures serve as companions on the journey to self-discovery.
Gallery Bakyoung presents the winners of its annual competition for new artists called "No self". The title echoes the Buddhist idea that a fixed self does not exist. Everything in the world is a result of a longer process, not really a fixed entity in and of itself.
Park Jong-Hwa's "Constant Moment" show focuses on the ordinary aspects of our daily lives and aims to convey emotional stories and arouse sympathy. Moments that occur in everyday life, such as dance, love, exercise, and travel, are depicted in rich colors and satirical descriptions to convey the feelings and thoughts of the characters. Through her paintings, the artist tries to show viewers the sweetness in the story of living in the world with the ultimate goal of helping people regain their smiles.
"Walking Between Transparent Spaces" by Myeong-geun Koh mixes elements of photography, sculpture, and architecture into a new form of 'photographic sculpture'. In this exhibition, a total of 230 works, from the artist's early works to the latest ones, are exhibited. The boundaries between art genres are broken down and the images of the ensuing social chaos intertwined. The transparent three-dimensional structure made of OHP film and plexiglass look different depending on the viewing position and create a milti-layerness of the message that is particularly unique for the artist.
Lee Hwaik Gallery presents Choi Byung-jin's "Ornament of Uneasiness", part 2 of the ‘Portrait Series’, which began around 2015, and focuses on how common and usual anxiety has become. The outside surrounds the body tightly, and the body responds to the outside pressure by constatly crunching.
"The Prophet in the Dark" is a conversation on neuromorphic engineering. What will the future society look like when a fully autonomous super-intelligent AI equipped with a neuromorphic chip that mimics the human brain (an ‘AI Prophet’ system) is commercialized? An artificial intelligence system that makes all judgments and decisions on behalf of humans (as is in self-driving EVs) looks like a 'prophet' that has appeared in an uncertain age. In the midst of growing reliance on AI systems, the artist raises questions about AI's potential for predictive errors and mistakes.
Lee Hyo-Young's "Springly" discusses the problems of modern life. In our rapidly changing environment, we modern people feel various emotions due to various external stimuli. As the balance of life collapses without us fully realising it and the importance of human existence is forgotten, taking time to observe one's emotions and deeply contemplating them becomes ever more important. In this context, artist Lee Hyo-young shows the condensed emotions within in a 3D form.