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Artist SANGHEE: Co-Created Sensibilities Through Interactive Art
SANGHEE (b. 1995) has explored the concrete sensations of temporality—marked by generations or eras—and the collective narratives entangled with those sensations through interactive media activated by viewer participation. Employing VR, performance, real-time simulation, and photographic media, SANGHEE’s works engage audiences as players, prompting them to embody the given game-like rules and thereby transforming the exhibition space into a shared allegory of reality.
2025.10.20
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Artist Hansol Ryu: Visualizing the Paradox of Fear and Humor
Deeply influenced by the forms, narratives, and traditions of gore films and comics, Hansol Ryu (b. 1989) has developed a performative practice that spans video, drawing, and installation. The artist is particularly interested in tactile imaginaries associated with bodily transformation, and based on this, creates works that visualize the contradictory sensations of fear and humor as encountered in everyday life.
2026.04.20
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[Critique] Machine to Touch the Heart
Filled with various fascinating technologies and mechanical devices, Jungki Beak’s studio reminds one more of an experiment lab rather than a studio. Upon closer inspection on the meaning of the devices however, it’s evident that these mechanisms do not have much to do with the so called conventional science,
2013
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[Review] Shaking your Hair loose
Is it possible to create in a state where consciousness is maximally excluded? From the Surrealists of the 1920s and 30s to Jackson Pollock—who hoped that paint would settle onto the canvas through the unrestrained movements of the body—
2015
Exhibitions
《Knocking Air》, 2020.05.12 – 2020.07.05, Barakat Contemporary
Barakat Contemporary will present Chung Seoyoung’s solo exhibition, 《Knocking Air》, from 12th May to 5th July 2020. Chung Seoyoung is an artist who played a leading role in establishing ‘Contemporary Art’ as a new category within the Korean art world in the 1990s.
2020.05.12
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[Review] Empty Morph
The Page Gallery’s group exhibition 《Soh(素)_empty morph》, featuring Kim Tschoon Su, Shin Soohyeok, and Cheon Kwangyup, presents works by three artists who pursue a shared process of “returning to a single origin (素) through non-purposiveness and the dreaming of the body.”
2021
