Installation view of 《SeMA Project V_Yaloo》 © Seoul Museum of Art
Seo-Seoul Museum of Art presents the
outdoor exhibition 《SeMA Project V_Yaloo》 on view through June 7. SeMA Project V at the Seo-Seoul Museum of
Art is an experimental platform where urban memory and future technologies
intersect. Operating in various spaces beyond the museum walls, the project
encounters the audience within the expanded terrain of the city.
The platform’s inaugural project, Yaloo’s Shininho
Landing (2026), is a polyphonic opera centered on Shininho, the
artist’s 86-year-old maternal grandmother, who appears as a K-pop idol and
“grandmother pirate” raiding data banks.
Yaloo, Shininho Landing, 2026 © Seoul Museum of Art
As she lands upon the spatiotemporal data
of West Seoul, she summons alternative sensibilities from the fringes,
composing a narrative of the future that mutates and proliferates like an oral
folktale. Traversing the city’s strata where a labor-intensive industrial past
overlaps with a present defined by IT servers and platforms, Shininho hijacks
the visual and sensory data of West Seoul.
Her piracy serves as a speculative
methodology for rewriting history and reclaiming memory, fracturing systems
that reduce people and cities to mere extractable resources.
Shininho’s elderly female body becomes a
site of resistance against the logic of “total optimization.” Within a
technological regime of acceleration, efficiency, and control, her body
accumulates error, delay, and residue, carving out a space for alternative
tempos.
Yaloo, Shininho Landing, 2026 © Seoul Museum of Art
In the museum's rear yard, a structure
evocative of a landed pirate-spaceship or an aged data center houses octagonal
LED panels. Through constant recombination, these panels visualize the quiet
yet turbulent dynamics between body, object, ancestor, and data.
Shininho Landing
integrates diverse technologies including MetaHuman, motion capture, and
generative AI; it was produced in collaboration with a novelist, an architect,
a musician, a graphic designer, a technical director, and an actor.
