Installation view
of 《The Wild Bunch vol.2》 ©ThisWeekendRoomThisWeekendRoom presents a group exhibition
《The Wild Bunch vol.2》,
showcasing emerging artists, on view through April 12.
Humanity is passing through an ironic era
in which the boundary between physical reality and immaterial illusion is
dissolving, and the conditions of the real world are increasingly influenced by
the online environment. The exhibition 《Wild Bunch
vol.2》 highlights four emerging artists whose material
explorations and conceptual discussions are grounded in the specificity of this
moment.
Installation view
of 《The Wild Bunch vol.2》 ©ThisWeekendRoomMoon Mean, Yeun Song, Yongbin Lee, and
Soohyun Chung intentionally step away from the commercialized logic of visual
art forms such as sculpture, painting, and installation. As a generation of
digital natives, they focus on reimagining the layers of images they have
encountered in and around media reality into distinctive forms and concepts,
instead of sinking into the illusion of hyperreality.
The artists engage with information stored
on smartphones or circulating online, incorporating the rules and limits of
architecture, manufactured goods, animation derivatives, and the effects of
digital editing programs. This process entails the introduction of their own
formative logic and characteristic textures. For example, they create the
surfaces on which the images are placed by hand, or by mixing different
materials, and achieve a variable state in which each element can be freely
combined or disassembled as needed.
Installation view
of 《The Wild Bunch vol.2》 ©ThisWeekendRoomSharing a loose interest in virtual and
real places, the creation and destruction of space, and the convergence and
dislocation of physical constraints, their works do not converge within the
categories of traditional media. Instead, they proliferate and transform from
there. This exhibition invites us to perceive the environmental features of
today’s world-shaping and anchoring our senses-and aims to capture the
diversity of visual languages that emerge from them.
Participating
Artists: Moon Mean, Yeun Song, Yongbin Lee, Soohyun
Chung
이지연은 2021년부터 미디어문화예술채널 앨리스온 에디터로 활동하였으며 2021년부터 2023년까지 samuso(현 Space for Contemporary Art)에서 전시 코디네이터로 근무한 바 있다.
