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Artist Goyoson, Boundaryless Sculptures Formed Within Mutable Relationships
Goyoson (b. 1995) creates sculptures where the artist’s inner world and the world we live in organically converge. He discovers new sensory possibilities among everyday objects not traditionally used as sculptural materials and transforms their forms within various spatiotemporal contexts.
2025.05.12
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Yagwang: On Porous Space-Time Where Diverse Identities Intersect
Yagwang, a visual art collective formed by Kim Terri and Jeon In—both born in the 1990s—reveals the language of representation that subverts fixed notions of identity through various media such as video, sculpture, performance, and painting. As the name Yagwang (meaning "phosphorescence") suggests, the two artists have continued to illuminate and give voice to those considered strange or alien—like phosphorescent objects that momentarily glow in the dark after absorbing light.
2025.08.18
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Artist Taeyeon Kim: Finding New Possibilities in the Blind Spots of Reality’s Frameworks
Taeyeon Kim (b. 1987) recognizes the various “frameworks” of reality—such as standards, restrictions, systems, conditions, and limits—and takes them as the starting point of her practice. Her work seeks out the blind spots within fixed structures, including the physical constraints of space, and from these points discovers alternative possibilities or new meanings, proposing responses that engage with and counter these conditions.
2026.04.06
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[Critique] Imaginary Documentary: “489 Years” by Hayoun Kwon
Hayoun Kwon (Seoul, 1981~) is a filmmaker and media artist based in Korea and France. She visualizes the experiences and memories of others through 3D animation and VR images. Her work materializes personal narratives, enabling them to extend beyond mere imagery to immersive experiences, allowing viewers to engage deeply with stories they have never personally encountered.
2021
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[Critique] Minouk Lim’s “Media” Art
In The Legend of Angels, French philosopher Michel Serres evokes the world as a vast array of flows:
“Winds generate flows of air in the atmosphere; rivers draw flows of water across land; glaciers carve hollows through mountains
2015
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[Column] Stories Heard Through Images
Won Seoungwon is a natural-born storyteller. This is evident not only when speaking with her but also in her artworks, which are filled with rich and abundant narratives. Just as words come together to form sentences, and sentences accumulate to create a novel, she combines around two thousand individual photographic images into the construction of a single intriguing story.
2022.02
