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《Glove box》, 2024.03.02 – 2024.03.28, Alterside
Taking the grotesque form of a “glove box”—a sealed container fitted with internal gloves used to control isolated materials—as its conceptual starting point, Chang Younghae explores the sensations of a body that is both part of “me” and, at the same time, subsumed as a material object within the professionalized domain of “the clinical.”
In 《Glove box》, the “corpus” refers both to
2024.03.01
Articles
[Review] 《Circle, Chase, Contact》 REVIEW
There are moments when states we believe we know well—through frequent encounter or familiarity—begin to slip away. The field of art sometimes transforms what we call the “obvious” into a question imbued with doubt and fear. Particularly amid the turbulence of digital technologies, our sensory understanding of the physical and the immaterial readily falters, and hybrid subjects and situations emerge with increasing prominence through layers of overlap.
2025
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[Essay] Story of Mutant 'Jaguar'
From this time, I would like to explain how various animals in the work, from the tire mutant series to the recently started New mutant series, are revealed in the author’s work under the theme ‘Story Of Mutant’. This time, as the first, we introduce the Jaguar series, an early works.
2020.12.21
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[Critique] Contemporary Art of Osang Gwon
In general, Osang Gwon’s oeuvre consists largely of Deodorant Type, The Flat, and The Sclupture series. Started in beginning of 1998, Deodorant Type is the oldest, most acclaimed of Gwon’s art practice.
2012
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Artist Choi Jeong Hwa’s Work Begins with Everyday Life
Choi Jeong Hwa (b. 1961) has created a variety of installations that bring cheap everyday consumables such as plastic baskets, piggy banks, artificial flowers, and brooms into the realm of art. By transforming these mass-produced everyday consumer goods into artworks and moving them into museums, the artist blurs the boundaries between high art and popular culture through so-called cheap pop culture, or kitsch, and captures a slice of Korean society.
2024.08.06
