Installation view of 《Landscape in Suspension》 ©Artside GalleryArtside
Gallery presents a solo exhibition 《Landscape in
Suspension》 by artist Yoo Hwa Soo, through November 15.
Focusing
on the theme of “landscape architecture,” the exhibition reveals how what we
call “landscape” is in fact an order constructed by power and capital. Through
uncanny and curious scenes created with materials such as stone, branches,
glass, and asphalt, the works destabilize familiar notions of landscape and
expose its constructed nature.
A
landscape is not a neutral view of nature; it is a visual construct shaped by
social relations and systems of power. What we see reflects aesthetic and
economic desires rather than objective reality..
Installation view of 《Landscape in Suspension》 ©Artside GalleryYoo Hwa
Soo has continuously created works that recall and restore the meaning of
beings marginalized in the pursuit of human utility. His interests began with
the construction industry—the practice of covering and transforming the land we
live on—and have since expanded to themes of disability, technology, and
particularly smart farming, which artificially cultivates nature.
Installation view of 《Landscape in Suspension》 ©Artside Gallery
In this
exhibition, he documents moments of autonomous existence that escape human
intention—fragments scattered within a collective state of “uselessness”
constructed around the theme of landscape architecture. Moving between life and
death, care and control, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the
social meanings embedded in landscape.
