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Artist Daseul Song: A Study on the Generative Principles of ‘Digital Abstract Moving Images’
Daseul Song (b. 1990) explores the sensations and narratives generated at the boundary between the screen and physical reality through what she terms “digital abstract moving images.” She approaches image data not merely as visual information, but as an object that records the corporeality of contemporary image producers and consumers alike, and creates video works that invite viewers to imagine and sense this materiality.
2026.01.19
Exhibitions
《The Last Things Before the Last》, 2022.12.03 – 2023.02.12, HITE Collection
HITE Collection presents 《The Last Things Before the Last》 as its 2022 Young Artist Exhibition, featuring Park Rondi, WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE, and TZUSOO. “The power that governs our imagination possesses absolute control over us” (Markus Gabriel). This exhibition seeks to examine the worlds and forces toward which the sensibilities and imaginations of young artists are directed.
2022.12.01
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Artist Jihye Park: On the Forms Shaped by Human Imperfection
Jihye Park (b. 1987) is interested in social orders mediated by implicit consensus and has continuously questioned the value systems we believe to be optimal. Based in sculpture and installation, her work takes the form of a sculptural essay that expands into text, video, and performance.
2026.04.27
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Artist Jeongkeun Lee: Mediumistic Imagination through the Combination of Image and Frame
Jeongkeun Lee (b. 1989) examines the relationship between form and image through the combination of photographic images and the frames that contain them. In his work, the frame functions both as a protective device for the photograph and as a storyboard, forming an exaggerated exterior that allows the photograph to be interpreted in new ways. In doing so, the content of the photograph becomes connected to the frame, representing a series of events experienced by the artist.
2026.04.06
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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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Exhibitions
《HYUNDAI 50 Part II》, 2020.06.12 – 2020.07.19, Gallery Hyundai
Part two of Gallery Hyundai’s 50th anniversary exhibition, 《HYUNDAI 50》, highlighting the works by artists whom the gallery has started working with from the mid-1980s to the present. Over seventy works by thirteen foreign artists and sixteen Korean artists who share a part of the gallery’s history are presented
2020.06.10
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《Echo》, 2024.10.25 – 2024.11.20, A-Lounge
A-Lounge presents Sunny Kim’s solo exhibition 《Echo》 from October 25 to November 20, 2024. The exhibition features a total of 15 works, including 10 unstretched canvas cloths directly attached to the wall and 5 canvas and pole-based works. As a 1.5-generation Korean American, Kim has previously introduced schoolgirls in uniform into her canvases as recurring motifs, reinterpreting unstable, fragmented memories from her brief childhood in Korea.
2024.10.25
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Kang Hong-Goo (Seoul) Wins the 7th DongGang Photography Award
Kang Hong-Goo (52, photo), a Seoul-based artist, has been selected as the recipient of the 7th DongGang Photography Award at the 2008 DongGang Photo Festival. Although Kang majored in Western painting at the graduate school of Hongik University, he has pursued photographic practices that merge diverse media,
2008.06.12
