Poster image of 《The End of the World and Missed Calls》 ©Gangneung Museum of Art
Gangneung
Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition 《The End of
the World and Missed Calls》, by artist Seol Euna, on
view through March 30. Seol Euna, a first-generation web art artist in Korea,
presents an interactive storytelling project in this exhibition, focusing on
the theme of marginalized communication.
Using analog telephones as a medium, this
project has connected countless conversations over the past six years, amassing
approximately 130,000 calls. The artist created a performance film that
releases these accumulated voices in "Ushuaia, Iceland," often
referred to as the end of the world. This film was selected as a nominee in the
international competition and documentary sections of the Tampere Film
Festival, one of the world's top three short film festivals.
Installation view of 《The End of the World
and Missed Calls》 ©Gangneung
Museum of ArtThe voices collected in this exhibition
will also be dispersed in Iceland after the exhibition ends. Believing that
fragments of genuine communication, when connected, have the power to heal, the
artist has been gathering stories that remain as missed calls—words left
unsaid.
Seol Euna was the first Korean to win the
Gold Lion in the Cyber category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of
Creativity and received the Presidential Commendation at the 2019 Korea Design
Awards.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
