Seoul, November 28 – December 9, 2015, http://www.ssdgongjang.com/ https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421
As a sequel to Part 1 at Space Ba421 where Shin Kiwoun presented the blueprints for the forthcoming show, this show presented the finished artworks created according to the blueprints.
Overall, there were three media art installations. All three works dealt in some way with the split between the real and the mediated, pointing towards the cyclical loops that constitute all of our interaction as well as our own self-definition within the reciprocal relationships as communicating agents.
One non-interactive work presented a ‘holografic’ projection (with a semi-transparent mirror) showing burning pages from Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation treatise.
Another installation consisted of a 3-D printed model of the space of the gallery: As one observed the space and looked into the space from the top, the image of his face has been captured and projected onto the ceiling of the real space in which he was present, thus reversing the relationship used to create the model: While the model has been created according to measures taken from the real space, the image projected onto the real space has originated from an interaction with the model of the space.
The third and largest installation consisted of a projection onto a large textile cube floating in air. In some distance from the cube, there was a smaller cube with a chair below, inviting the visitor to sit on the chair and place his head inside of the small cube from below. If a visitor accepted this invitation, a pixilated image of his face was projected onto the large textile cube, while he could observe this projection as well as his own body from which the projection had been sourced on a small monitor placed inside of the cube his head has been in. As in the previous work, the work presented the viewer with a paradoxical feedback loop, where he was allowed to gaze at himself as long as he allowed himself to be gazed at.
