Yang Jung Uk, A Little Closer Each Time, Installation view of 《Pale Blue Dot, 2247》 ⓒ Incheon International Airport
Incheon International Airport Corporation, in collaboration with
the Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS), presents a Public Art Special
Exhibition from July 14 to November 14, open free of charge to all visitors to
Incheon International Airport.
Now in its fifth edition, the Incheon International Airport
Public Art Special Exhibition is an annual initiative through which the
Corporation and KAMS jointly commission and present outstanding public artworks
by emerging Korean artists at the airport.
A distinctive feature of this year's edition is that, for the
first time, separate open calls were held for Terminal 1 and Terminal 2,
resulting in two concurrent exhibitions with distinct curatorial themes.
The exhibition features works by seven media artists and three
sculptors, presenting ten media artworks alongside three sculpture and
installation works. The media works are screened across six large-scale digital
displays located in the public areas of Terminals 1 and 2, while the sculpture
and installation works are presented at three exhibition sites within the
security-restricted areas of the two terminals.
Kim Bohie, The Days & Dahee Jeong, The Hours of Tree, Installation view of 《Shape of Nature, Shape of Life》 ⓒ Incheon International Airport
At Terminal 1, 《Shape of Nature, Shape of Life》, curated by CAN Foundation, is on view. Bringing together six
artists whose practices observe and reinterpret the forms and sensibilities of
nature in distinct ways, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the
relationships between humanity, nature, and life.
Oh Youkyeong presents Dreamlike, a suspended
installation that appears to have descended from the sky, while Kim Bohie's The
Days transforms her paintings—built through the repetition of
brushstrokes—into moving images.
Dahee Jeong's The Hours of Tree and Young
June Kim's Moving Mountain Airlines evoke the expressive
lines and tactile textures of hand-drawn imagery. Meanwhile, Park Jaebeom's Be
Alive and Heeyoon Hahm's Epicenter welcome
visitors through narrative-driven animated works.
Oh Youkyeong, Dreamlike, Installation view of 《Shape of Nature, Shape of Life》 ⓒ Incheon International Airport
At Terminal 2, 《Pale Blue Dot, 2247》,
an exhibition curated by Platform A, is on view. Inspired by the iconic
photograph of Earth taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of approximately 6
billion kilometers in 1990—the image that came to be known as the Pale Blue
Dot—the exhibition imagines a future in the year 2247, 257 years later, when
humanity has migrated into space.
Through this speculative premise, the exhibition raises
questions about our changing planetary environment and the fundamental values
of human existence.
Yoon Chung Han, The Great Arrival, Installation view of 《Pale Blue Dot, 2247》 ⓒ Incheon International Airport
Yang Jung Uk presents the kinetic sculpture A Little
Closer Each Time, a monumental structure resembling a celestial body
that transforms the West Node Plaza into a new exhibition venue.
Inhwa Yeom presents two works: Solarsonic Band: In
Transit, a video featuring a fictional band performance created using
artificial intelligence (AI), and Takeaway: Love, Peace, Hospitality,
an installation combining inflatable and lenticular sculptures with
moving-image media.
Yoon Chung Han imagines alternative futures through The
Great Arrival, which envisions a new ecosystem inhabited by life
forms that have migrated into space, and Sea Unseen,
depicting an imagined future ocean overwhelmed by plastic waste.
Meanwhile, Hyoheun Shin presents Dilated Dream,
a work that captures the altered perception of time during humanity's final day
on Earth before departing for space, offering yet another vision of the future.
Participating Artists: (Shape of Nature,
Shape of Life) Oh Youkyeong, Kim Bohie, Dahee Jeong, Young June Kim, Park
Jaebeom, Heeyoon Hahm; (Pale Blue Dot, 2247) Yang Jung Uk, Inhwa Yeom, Yoon
Chung Han, Hyoheun Shin
