Moon Kyungwon (feat. Jeeu Kim), Promise Park_Yongsan: PLAYSCAPE, 2022, 2 HD films, galvanized steel pipe, aluminum, brass, copper, monitors, 530 x 530x 600 cm, 2min, 5min 20 sec. ©MOON Kyungwon, Designed my Jeeu Kim Moon Kyungwon (feat. Jeeu Kim), 7 PLAYSCAPES: ATLAS, TRAUMA, UTOPIA, PARADOX, PATTERN, PARTICLE, CODE, 2022, Silkscreen, 110 x 110 cm (each). ©MOON Kyungwon, Designed my Jeeu Kim (Photo: Sangtae Kim)Leeum Museum of Art is holding the exhibition “Cloud Walkers“ from September 2, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The exhibition features forty-five artworks by twenty-four artists from various fields, including contemporary art, architecture, design, music, and literature.
Climate change, pandemics, and war have altered the values that have been inculcated in our society over the past century. With the need to pursue new cultural solidarity from a broad perspective extending beyond regions and countries, Leeum has reconsidered what kind of values Asia should pursue in the future and how to think about a sustainable future through art.
The “cloud” in the exhibition title is a metaphor for the new sociocultural environment which has emerged in the 21st century and connotes the concepts of climate, imagination, and hyperlinks. The exhibition is set as a virtual platform where different ideas of artists can be shared across geopolitical boundaries.
The participating artists are walkers, flâneurs, doers, and dreamers who freely wander this virtual platform. Based on the shared regional experience, which is rapidly shifting in a new direction, the artists envision today’s and tomorrow’s society through a new critical perspective and research ways to enable sustainable coexistence and present a synesthetic world where real and virtual, material and immaterial intersect.
Participating Korean artists include Moon Kyungwon (feat. Jeeu Kim), Bek Hyunjin, Hyun Nahm, and Minki Hong. Other artists include furniture designer Jinyeong Yeon, stpmj Architecture, fiction writer Kim Cho-yeop, Kengo Kuma, Đoàn Thanh Hà, Kazuya Katagiri, A.A. Murakami, WKND Lab, Yuima Nakazato, Himali Singh Soin, Natasha Tontey, Wong Ping, Lu Yang, motoguo (feat. ejin sha), aaajiao, Tromarama, Samson Young, Tishan Hsu, Guan Xiao, and Lawrence Lek.
