Artist Chan Sook Choi ⓒVIDEOFORMES
Contemporary Korean artist Chan Sook Choi
will participate as a main artist in the international media art festival
“VIDEOFORMES 2026.”
Founded in 1986 in Clermont-Ferrand,
France, VIDEOFORMES is a long-standing international media art festival that
has, for more than four decades, expanded the possibilities of contemporary
imagery through experimental video and digital art. Crossing the boundaries
between technology and art, the festival has consistently created new spaces
for sensory and artistic exploration.
This year, VIDEOFORMES brings together a
wide range of contemporary works—including immersive video and multimedia
installations, participatory environments, and audiovisual performances—to
explore the potential of hybrid arts that dissolve traditional boundaries
between artistic disciplines and propose new modes of perception and
engagement.
Chan Sook Choi, Archive Yangjiri, 2016, Installation view of 《Re-move》 (Grimmuseum, Berlin, 2016) ©Grimmuseum
As a main artist in VIDEOFORMES 2026, Chan
Sook Choi will present the works Archive Yangjiri and
qbit to adam.
The long-term project Archive
Yangjiri, initiated in 2016, documents elderly residents living in
Yangji-ri, a village populated by migrants and used as a propaganda tool aimed
at North Korea. Composed of video and installation, the work reconfigures
Yangji-ri as a territory where the identities of migrants are expanded and
rearticulated, materializing and visualizing the overlooked histories of those
whose lives have rarely been brought into focus.
Chan Sook Choi, qbit to adam, 2021, Installation view of 《Korea Artist Prize 2021》 (MMCA, 2021) ©MMCA
The artist’s critical inquiry into the
interests entangled in the ownership of land—and the beings pushed to its
margins—expands further in qbit to adam.
Beginning with the question, “When did land
become an object of human control and ownership?”, the video work qbit
to adam examines how states and institutions occupy and control
territories in the name of ideology, resources, or knowledge. At the same time,
it renders visible the places claimed by these vast systems, along with the
people and environments that inhabit them.
Meanwhile, qbit to adam
has also been selected as the key visual for this year’s VIDEOFORMES festival.
Poster image of VIDEOFORMES 2026 ©VIDEOFORMES
The exhibition will be held at the Camille
Claudel Center from March 12 to 29, 2026, with an artist talk scheduled on
March 14. Participating artists include Chan Sook Choi, Hugo Arcier, Julie
Stephen Chheng, and Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, among others.
