AOD (Art of Dalim) Museum presents a group exhibition 《The Collapse Manual》, on view through January 7, 2026.

The exhibition 《The Collapse Manual》 envisions a future that has not yet arrived—and what might come after. Rather than rebuilding a fallen past, it seeks to reorganize the relationships among what remains within the recurring collapses of the future. Each participating artist contemplates ‘collapse’ in their own language.

What they offer is less a set of instructions than an attempt to translate our current reality differently. Within a world shaped by anthropocentrism, productivity, and Enlightenment rationality, the exhibition traces the origins of these problems and works to restore the senses that have been lost.

Cheolgyu Kang presents paintings that construct fictional worlds grounded in autobiographical narratives. Centered on imagery of crisis, anxiety, and sublimation, his works render visible the existential questions faced by individuals living in contemporary society.

Gijeong Goo, who explores the relationships between humans, technology, and nature, has been creating digital images that reconstruct natural landscapes through 3D rendering. By blurring the boundary between the real and the virtual, his work critically reflects on the shifting sensory experiences shaped by today’s media, questioning the very notion of “nature” that we presume to be familiar.

Dohyun An collects and recombines objects that have been discarded or marginalized within the production systems of consumer society, transforming them into new forms whose origins and narratives are unknowable. Through sculpture, installation, and performance, his work encapsulates these transformations, revealing the cycle of generation and disappearance that runs throughout his practice.

Yang Seungwon starts from the medium of photography to explore its inherent imperfections and the fractures within human perception. In his recent works, water emerges as a concrete material agent, allowing his photography to expand beyond the flat surface into three-dimensional forms. Through this shift, he reveals the medium’s fluidity as it negotiates its relationship with the external world.

Younguk Yi experiments with how the formal strategy of repetition operates in the present moment, deconstructing, recombining, and arranging forms within his paintings. The resulting sequences recall computer graphics or AI-generated imagery, while simultaneously prompting viewers to reflect on the sense of emptiness felt by contemporary individuals living amid an overwhelming proliferation of images.

Hyunwoo Lee creates sculptures that contemplate how an object might exist within its environment, focusing on the unchanging exterior of things even within perpetually shifting and redefining surroundings. By linking this enduring quality to states of personal anxiety and precarity, Lee searches for ways in which objects negotiate their relationships with the environments they inhabit.

Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Moohyun Jo explores the relationship between images and their surfaces and interiors. This inquiry extends to an investigation of the blind faith humans place in objects and the emotions that arise from such belief.

Participating Artists: Gijeong Goo, Cheolgyu Kang, Moohyun Jo, Hyunwoo Lee, Younguk Yi, Seungwon Yang, Dohyun An

“The Collapse Manual”
2025.11.21 - 2026.01.07
Tue-Sun 10:00 pm – 6:00 pm
AOD (Art of Dalim) Museum
4, Jandari-ro 3-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea