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Artist Daseul Song: A Study on the Generative Principles of ‘Digital Abstract Moving Images’
Daseul Song (b. 1990) explores the sensations and narratives generated at the boundary between the screen and physical reality through what she terms “digital abstract moving images.” She approaches image data not merely as visual information, but as an object that records the corporeality of contemporary image producers and consumers alike, and creates video works that invite viewers to imagine and sense this materiality.
2026.01.19
Exhibitions
《Clean Room, Reeling Room》, 2025.12.13 – 2026.02.01, MOCA Taipei
Production of innovative technology requires not only extensive labor but also vast material inputs. In the process, harmful substances, many of which cause serious physical damage and illness to workers, are generated. Yet these health issues are often silenced, dismissed as individual misfortunes, or obscured by layers of gender and social inequality.
2025.12.12
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Artist Hansol Ryu: Visualizing the Paradox of Fear and Humor
Deeply influenced by the forms, narratives, and traditions of gore films and comics, Hansol Ryu (b. 1989) has developed a performative practice that spans video, drawing, and installation. The artist is particularly interested in tactile imaginaries associated with bodily transformation, and based on this, creates works that visualize the contradictory sensations of fear and humor as encountered in everyday life.
2026.04.20
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[Critique] Surging Memories, Overwhelmed
It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper?”, The Forerunner (1913)
2025
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[Review] Evanescing, In-evanescing
Lee Jinju’s solo exhibition, 《Evanescing, In-evanescing》, currently on view at 16 Bungee evokes the writings of Marcel Proust, who explored fragmented memories and the incompleteness of memory. Composed like a puzzle of words—memory, everyday life, secrecy, intimacy, the monotony of
2011
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Naver Launches ‘Naver Logo Art Project’
Naver, Korea’s leading search portal operated by NHN (CEO Kim Sang-heon), has launched the ‘Naver Logo Art Project.’ As its first installment, a logo created by pop artist Lee Donggi was featured on the main page in celebration of the 35th anniversary of ‘Robot Taekwon V’.
2011.07.25
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[Critique] On "Flatness" in Im Sunny’s Painting:《The Flat》Exhibition
In recent painting, contemporary relevance is achieved less through the invention of new forms or subjects than through a renewed attentiveness to how painting is perceived, interpreted, and framed. Increasingly, artists engage in a meta-critical reflection on the content and structure of traditional painting, revealing new perspectives embedded within its inherited conventions.
2015
Exhibitions
《RENT》, 2022.10.14. - 2022.11.10, Amado Art Space
《RENT》 is an exhibition that explores the capitalist use of land and the idea of private land ownership through the language of painting. In our contemporary world, where everything is commodified based on the principles of capital, the land is also predominantly perceived solely
2022.10.07
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《ATTA KIM : ON-AIR》, 2008.03.21 – 2008.05.25, Rodin Gallery, Leeum Museum of Art
As interest in photography as a medium continues to grow, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition by Atta Kim—one of the most acclaimed photographers in Korea today—at Rodin Gallery. Having begun his practice as a self-taught photographer, Atta Kim gained attention in the mid-1980s through powerful series such as ‘Mental Patients,’ ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage,’ ‘Being-in-the-World,’ and ‘Deconstruction.’
2008.03.21
