Han Suji, Xenon Skin - ribbit ribbit, 2025, Single-channel video, sound, 13min. 40sec. ©Art Center White Block
Art Center White Block, in collaboration
with the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, presents the Gyeonggi Visual Arts
Achievement Exhibition 2025, 《The Breath of Fresh:
Transits of Senses》, on view through February 22, 2026.
At White Block, nine participating artists
explore how different modes of sensing and perceptual attitudes can recover and
reconfigure “disappearing senses.”
Lee Soyo, 돌 위에 나무 위에 숲, 2025, Archival photo prints and pencil drawings on paper, mixed media, 30 works (A.P.); folio box, wood, photo essay; dimensions variable ©Art Center White Block
《The Breath of Fresh: Transits of Senses》
begins from the proposition that senses do not simply vanish;
rather, they reemerge in different forms—through images, language, bodily
movement, and artistic gestures. This exhibition searches within the gaps of
disconnection for ways to “feel the world again,” examining how lost or muted
sensations may return through artistic practice.
The participating artists trace the
lingering resonance of such disappearing senses, restoring, through the
language of art, the unseen textures of time, forgotten temperatures, and
subtle vibrations and rhythms.
Kim Min-hye, 물이 모이는 곳_Square, 2025, aqueous spray on aluminum panel, wood, clay, bronze, 62 × 240 × 400 cm, reference image: 물이 모이는 곳_Triangle, 2024 ©Art Center White Block
《The Breath of Fresh: Transits of Senses》
is not a place that mourns the disappearance of the senses,
but one that creates conditions for them to shift and be repositioned in
different forms. It slows down the speed of images and invites time to linger
along the changes of light and surface.
The viewer receives the world through the
body—by walking, passing through, sitting, and looking. Just as 生 transforms into 化, the senses do not
vanish; they return to us through a passage from explanation to experience,
from the eye to the skin, from data to the body.
Participating
Artists: Kim
Min-hye, Son Kwang-ju, Shin Jae-eun, Yu Bi-ho, Lee Soyo, Im Sunyi, Jang Boyoon,
Jung Soo, Han Suji
