Installation view of 《Spiraling World》 © Art Centre Art Moment
Art Centre Art Moment presents a solo exhibition 《Spiraling World》 by artist Kim Sejin, on view through December 5.
Kim
Sejin examines the conditions of “being human” within contemporary
civilization, which continually advances along new trajectories. In this
exhibition, her inquiry unfolds across various media, including media
installations, sculptural works, and drawings, with the documentary work Personification
(義人化) at its
center.
Installation view of 《Spiraling World》 © Art Centre Art Moment
Focusing on labor and
production as the foundations of civilization, Kim traces the history of
technology’s efforts to replace and extend human physical capabilities.
Developed to compensate for human vulnerabilities, technology now increasingly
assumes the roles of thought, sensation, and judgment, separating humans from
their bodies’ inherent functions.
Through the paradox of
machines becoming more humanlike while humans themselves become increasingly
mechanized, she questions the conditions of human existence within
technological civilization.
Installation view of 《Spiraling World》 © Art Centre Art Moment
Rather than reproducing the solidity or vastness of systems, Kim
directs her attention to the points of disjunction between systems and
individuals. This perspective extends to the relationship between the
exhibition space, 《Spiraling
World》, and the viewers who inhabit it.
Bringing together questions accumulated and revisited through
different materials and media, the exhibition forms an organic space that
invites viewers to reconsider the relationship between systems and individuals.
As civilization continues to develop machines that resemble
humans, while paradoxically driving humans toward mechanization, 《Spiraling World》 raises
fundamental questions: What constitutes the order that makes us human, and how
can we preserve our distinct human identity?
