“Active Environments” Poster image ©Perigee Gallery
Perigee Gallery presents “Active Environments” by Euysun Kim, SIN DI HA, and s.a.h (Yoojin Shim, Jihyung Han) through September 7 as the 2024 exhibition of ‘Perigee Unfold,’ a curatorial program that focuses on young artists under the age of 35.
The exhibition is based on the imagination of a near-future dystopia and a new landscape beyond, as we witness the reality of the climate crisis. In this exhibition, the environment is used as a concept that encompasses what we have come to call “nature” and the digital media landscape that is shaping our world today. In this near-future landscape, the natural and the artificial, the material and the online worlds are intertwined and not clearly separated.
SIN DI HA has been interested in the architecture of non-human beings, including flora and fauna, and imagines materials that build themselves. In this exhibition, SIN presents an installation of cement stalactites and stalagmites that have grown in the basement of a building, juxtaposing a limestone cave with an old concrete structure.
Euysun Kim, working with organic materials, presents a sculpture in which dilute soil seeps through the netting and slowly dries, allowing the viewer to sense the “stretched tension” of a delicate but constantly changing organism.
Meanwhile, s.a.h, who has been carefully contemplating the point of overlap between the world of images and the real world, imagines the ruins of the age of image overload through the medium of online games.
The keyword shared by the works in this exhibition is 'world (making)'. By sensing the present world and imagining the near future, hope to find clues to prolong the future of coexistence by facing the ruined landscape as reality rather than “beyond,” and by gauging the new movements that will emerge from the ruins.
