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Somebody vs Something

2024.12.1 - 12.22

Art these days, Seoul, Korea 2024

 

Artist Talk 2024.12.14 2:00 PM

 

 

The exhibition title 'Somebody vs Something' is the same title as the 2017 solo exhibition documenting deer and other animals left behind as roadkill, and stems from the conflict between the personal pronoun 'He/She' and the referential noun 'it' : “How should I refer to the body of a dead animal?” The exhibition examines my relationship with animals that are not intimate enough to be referred to as 'he/she' but feel uncomfortable when referred to as 'it' by extending it to Korean society through newspaper archives (60s-present), and reconsiders the hierarchical order and structure of 'He' and 'It' in the process of researching microbial fermentation materials that are part of human and animal bodies. The exhibition rearranges the 2023 project “Smart Skin Farm,” which questions factory-style livestock farming, between video works, research, drawings, and collages from different time periods, and organizes it as a place to customize and exchange skin by combining collected human personal information and plant microbiological characteristics. In addition, it is proposed to remember animals as beings with their own history, not as objects of infinite material resources or exploitation, in an attempt to record and preserve the "mixed species" growth process that reflects human birth information and color preferences, and expand the body to a macroscopic size.

 

 

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