The Algorithm Chronology Series

Abysmal Orbit

Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art

Gwangju, South Korea

2024

In online worlds we are free. Ethical norms and principles are relatively loose, and content is poured out raw without proper refinement. Images, sounds, subtitles and memes flood in. How should we welcome the era of "dopamine addiction", where eyes and ears are misled with provocative material?

Feeling helpless in the face of pervasive consumerism and information overload, artist Joonhong Min demonstrates the process of exploring the visual resources that surround us through art. Min's practice, which began with individual anxiety arising from the pressures of a competitive society and the compulsion of a standardised and uniform human figure, has now expanded to include society as a whole.

Min speaks clearly about the attitude of an artist living in this world. The artist is constantly questioning common sense and correctness, constantly revealing the sick and contradictory aspects and flaws of this society, and expressing a voice to normalise them. Nothing is complete or resolved. However, by continuing to reveal, expose, embrace and accept, Min leaves reflection and contemplation on what is right as the artist's own path of art.

Min's work exists on a line that is constantly changing and expanding. At the same time, in its infinite journey, the artist looks at the strange trajectory of the artist's practice and the contemporary society on which Min rides. The record of humanity in the ‘abysmal orbit’ that Joonhong Min depicts will be a landscape of all of us. This exhibition offers a time to look back at humanity and society, free from the flood of blind images that seem to overflow and suffocate.

-Exhibtion Review, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art