Shinsegae Department Store announced on the 9th that it will hold a solo exhibition of artist Kang I-yeon on the 4th floor of its main store, in the 'Heritage Museum.'
The exhibition will explore the theme of 'Entanglement,' unraveling the boundaries and interactions between humans and non-humans, technology and life through media art. The exhibition will run from the 10th to the 31st of next month.
Kang is a media artist who has continuously raised questions about binary thinking related to reality and virtuality, nature and artifice, and has participated in various global exhibitions, including a collaboration project with NASA and Google. She was the only Korean artist to participate in the ‘CONNECT, BTS’ project, which involved collaboration between BTS and contemporary artists around the world in 2020.
The exhibition features two screens symbolizing humans and machines, displaying different movements in a dark room, and a 6-minute video of their interaction is played on a loop. The audience can experience the inseparable relationship and the fusion process of heterogeneous elements as they move between spaces.
The exhibition works are in media installation form, enhancing immersion through the repetition of movements and pauses in screen presentations. The positions, perspectives, and developments between screens intertwine organically, prompting viewers to question the binary structure and the position of humans amidst technological advancement.
Additionally, this work will also be shown on the large outdoor display 'Shinsegae Square' of Shinsegae Department Store's main branch. This screening, which runs until September 5th, is the first instance where Kang I-yeon presents through a giant LED screen, and Shinsegae plans to use this to realize the publicization of art and strengthen its identity as a 'K-content hub.'