Installation view of 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 © WWNN
WWNN presents a group exhibition 《URBAN
CONSCIOUSNESS》 on view through May 9.
The city is no longer just a physical backdrop. It is a
cognitive field where sensation, memory, power, technology, and desire overlap,
continually reshaping a shared mental structure. It does not simply sit behind
experience. It quietly organises how perception and thought take form.
Installation view of 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 © WWNN
From this perspective, the exhibition approaches the city not as
an external subject, but as a condition that shapes how we see and think. 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 traces
the relationship between the city and the individual through shifts in
perception rather than through narrative or representation.
The participating artists move beyond depiction, focusing
instead on how the city operates, through speed, efficiency, repetition,
anonymity, and systems of surveillance, and how these forces register within
lived experience. The exhibition proposes a subtle shift: not how the city is
seen, but how it is understood.
Installation view of 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 © WWNN
Across the exhibition, the city emerges through layered time,
perceptual gaps, material traces, and structural tensions. These works do not
present the city as a fixed image, but as a shifting set of conditions. Within
this field, familiar structures begin to loosen, allowing the city to be
encountered, briefly, in a different register.
Participating Artists: Sejin Kwon, Sinhyung
Kim, Jazoo Yang, Changhwan Chun, Hyun Nahm, Jaerim Hwang
