“The Vanishing Horizon (Episode.01)” Installation view ©WWNNWWNN presents a group exhibition “The Vanishing Horizon (Episode.01)” on view through May 12.
This exhibition presents works that explore dystopian perspectives on the complex and multifaceted issues facing contemporary society, including science and technology, religion, and capitalism. By imagining a horizon beyond what is already in front of us, a horizon where everything is lost, this exhibition aims to examine the contradictions and dangers of contemporary society, and to develop a better understanding of the complexity of modern society and the boundaries of our future.
To this end, the exhibition will feature Andrea Samory, Jaehong Ahn, Ahyeon Ryu, and Younguk Yi. Andrea Samory explores the materialized virtual image and intangible power of the post-internet era. Samory reassembles conceptual elements from genres such as science fiction, distortion of the human body, cosmic horror, and magical realism to respond to current dystopian and utopian information. Jaehong Ahn’s paintings reflect the deconstruction of religion and mythology in the modern world, and the resulting loss of absolute authority and morality, which has left us lost as separate individuals, and raise the question of whether these separate individuals can coexist in life.
Ahyeon Ryu explores how digitally literate people respond to political and economic phenomena. She draws attention to the process by which particularities established by region, race, gender, and class are commodified by the desires of capital, and critically examines the cycle of spectacle production and consumption in global culture. In addition, Younguk Yi explores the intentional or unconscious overlapping of manipulated fragments of images. In this process, the patterns of the deconstructed fragments create ‘continuity’ and ‘strangeness’ in the midst of duplication and entanglement, an experiment to convey a sense of familiarity and discomfort to the viewer.
