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[Critique] Rays of a Nocturne
This exhibition is about “darkness.” 《Oh, Night and I’ll Come to You》—the title itself makes that clear. The sentence is a promise made to someone. It calls out to the one who is in the dark, extending a hand to someone
2025
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Artist JOO SLA: On Sensations Arising in Moments of Dimensional Shift
JOO SLA (b. 1988) has long been interested in subcultural forms such as comics and animation, as well as in fictional world-building grounded in aspects of reality. Working across diverse media—including animation, 3D sculpture, and two-dimensional works—she explores points where boundaries between the virtual and the real, the material and the immaterial, become entangled and collide, through processes of dimensional transition, fragmentation, and recomposition.
2026.04.27
Exhibitions
《Motel Tour》, 2007.08.31 - 2007.09.13, Space Vava
If the twentieth century was the age of mechanical reproduction, today can be described as the age of digital reproduction. Mechanical reproduction produces thousands of identical copies at the same time, operating through ceaseless repetition.
2007.08.29
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Artist Sung Hwan Kim Reimagines the Present and History Through Visual Storytelling
Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975), who works between New York and Amsterdam, has showcased a diverse range of works, incorporating various media such as film, video, drawing, music, architecture, and literature into installations, performances, radio dramas, and books.
2024.10.15
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《Lee Gapchul: Another Landscape 1979-2000》, 2025.12.12 – 2025.12.31, The Reference
For more than forty years, Lee Gapchul has documented landscapes permeated with the Korean land, its people, and the unconscious of the era. His photographs go beyond simple representation or the recording of events; they capture the deepest strata of Korean sensibility and collective memory, forming a crucial terrain in the history of Korean photography.
2025.12.10