Pipe Gallery presents a two-person exhibition 《Shadow Index》 by Daum Kim and Seungwon Yang, on view through October 15.

The exhibition illuminates the intersection of sensation and memory, exploring this terrain through the distinct practices of the two artists. Kim and Yang each reveal traces of emotion and memory that lie beneath the surface of reality, using their respective material vocabularies to evoke a space where the real and the unreal, the individual and the social, the experiential and the fictional converge.

Daum Kim’s(b. 1983) practice consistently engages the notion of the interface to visualize the boundaries between physical space and virtual environments, as well as between private experience and social context. Though rooted in painting, his surfaces unfold less as fixed images than as dynamic fields of sound, vibration, and memory.

Pools of pigment that reflect light like shallow puddles are interspersed with raised, textured areas, creating a tactile topography. These subtle variations in depth reveal the moment when his visual language—refined through video, sound, public art, and installation—manifests as visible waves within the medium of painting.

Seungwon Yang’s(b. 1984) practice began with a critical inquiry into the indexicality and fictive nature of photography, gradually evolving through processes of image fragmentation and transformation. His recent works align the fluidity of memory with the properties of water, shifting photographic images into forms that resist fixity yet retain traces.

Three-dimensional pieces—crumpled or bent under the premise of photography’s inherent stillness—reveal points of overlap between past and present, reality and fiction. His work remains in constant flux, materially articulating the ways in which memory is reshaped through social experience and environment.

In 《Shadow Index》, the two artists present fragments of traces—captured through their respective media—as shadow-like indices. Rather than offering a coherent narrative, Daum Kim’s sensory waveforms and Seungwon Yang’s shards of memory draw the viewer into an experience of slippage and dispersal, inviting an exploration of the latent strata beneath the surface of familiar reality.

Within this shadowed realm, the works do not claim a singular truth; instead, they unfold as indices of elusive sensations and fleeting memories. As viewers trace these fragments, they encounter how memory and perception shift and are reconfigured—an experience that extends beyond the personal to pose broader questions about how we perceive and remember the world under contemporary cultural and social conditions.

“Shadow Index”
2025.09.16 - 2025.10.15
Tue-Sat 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Pipe Gallery
2F – 3F 21, Daesagwan-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea