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[Critique] “Why My Sculpture Is Pictorial”
The wooden sculptural works of his that I remember have rough surfaces that are neither sufficiently polished nor fully colored. The sculptural forms, which look as if they have been summoned from a tree trunk standing in the ground with a sincere gaze, support a three-dimensional sense that rotates in the verticality of a cylinder.
2022.03.04
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Artist Sora Park: Critical Imagination of a Future Accelerated by Technological Advancement
Sora Park (b. 1992) works with a focus on social issues that emerge within contemporary digital media environments such as social media spaces and the metaverse. In particular, she pays attention to phenomena intensified and exposed by the advancement of science and technology, imagining possible situations, characters, and products that could arise in a future where today’s problems have further deepened. She visualizes these ideas through a variety of mediums, including sculpture, video, and installation.
2025.08.25
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[Critique] Mire Lee: Carriers
In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt with the hands. For an artist who regards it as important to touch materials by hand as she works, machinery is a key element that contributes propulsion and repetition to the movements of the substances she touches.
2020.07.23
Exhibitions
《The Unboxing Project 3.2: Maquette》, 2024.11.02 – 2024.12.14, VSF
Various Small Fires (VSF) proudly presents the fourth edition of 《THE UNBOXING PROJECT》, an iterative curatorial project by Hyunjoo Byeon and Minjin Chae started in 2022. This exhibition brings together some of the most well-known and emerging voices in Korean contemporary art and is the American debut for many.
November 16, 2024
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《YOU, Live!: Twelve-Door Handles》, 2019.10.18 – 2020.01.19, Ilmin Museum of Art
《YOU, Live!: Twelve-Door Handles》 marked artist Yoon Young Park’s first solo exhibition in nine years. Having worked between Korea and Canada, Park garnered significant attention in the Korean art world in the late 2000s for her distinctive storytelling methods and her expansion of the possibilities within the Korean painting medium.
2019.10.18
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[Critique] The Yeesookyungs¹
“In schematized time, nothing really new can emerge—everything is always-already there, and merely deploys its inherent potential... We are dealing here with another temporality, the temporality of freedom, of a radical rupture in the chain of (natural and/or social) causality.”
2012
