Consternation Life Style Series and Constructed Perspective II

Focus Art Fair London 2023

Saatchi Gallery

London, UK

Collaboration with Studio SMA

2023

Constructed Perspective II

Personally, this exhibition is an important milestone for Joonhong Min since his idea expands and proceeds to a more conceptual hemisphere. If his previous works implied the fragmentation and the isolation of people living in the contemporary city, in this exhibition, he questions a fundamental relationship between humans and media in a rapidly ever-changing

War and foodie are exposed to the same screen without hierarchy. A standard of 'importance' cannot be objectified.

Reason, a foundation of objectivity, is disregarded by improvisational pleasure and instant satisfaction like TikTok or YouTube shorts that constantly change and automatically scroll and evoke dopamine. The idea of 'general or average' no longer lasts due to the concept of the public is fragmented and multifaceted. Relativity is paramount in the world, but ironically, one can believe his or her perspective is correct because one can find similar opinions more easily and instantly synchronized by the scope of communication expanded to the globe. Media accelerates and reinforces this change. Your finger judges your frame and your perspective of the world. 

Questioning this situation, I tried to find a way to expand the meaning of Min's work. And a project initiated by finding and transforming the ordinary objects that exist next to us from at uncertain point but are unrecognizable and even invisible in many ways.

Objects should be expressed as flat spatial images but actually have multiple layers. This idea is connected to my previous works- constructed perspectives.

Especially, a technological structure that guarantees today's convenient life was focused and the approach led to an investigation of electronic pylons and steel structures. These structures are not recognizable in daily life but actually exist everywhere. As a metaphorical symbol of technology that is invisible but ubiquitous, similar structures were studied to perform a conceptual experiment.

Is my subjectivity truly mine? Or was it intended and created that way?

Double Helix, Digital Drawing, 2023

In 1920, Vladimir Tatlin designed the Third International Monument to disseminate the Communist's ideal.  

A slanted spiral structure dynamically ascending is a giant machine to broadcasts the ideology while accommodating a conference hall, radio broadcast, and offices. Each part of the building is supposed to rotate in a different period of time like a universe; one year, one month, and one day.  

The highest part of the monument was designed to project images of the sky during the nighttime. His ambitious utopian machine that produces and broadcasts information failed due to the poverty-stricken economic and political reality of Soviet society. Still, his monument is consistently celebrated, reimagined, and reproduced in the virtual realm. His vision is repeatedly rebuilt, reinterpreted, transformed, and redesigned by individuals.

Information is constantly produced, duplicated, and dissolute while it is consistently distorted and contextualized differently by the individual. In the flood of information, people are forced to choose either to take it or deny it in a very short period of time. It is not easy to maintain a critical position because the amount of information is overwhelming. The current situation has become a serious reality to people in incarnated our DNA.

Refinery, Digital Drawing, 2023

Information is translated into radio waves and flies through the air.

In fact, the entire universe is filled with disseminated information. The radio telescope observes the disk of a protoplanetary system at a distance of 450 light years, and the level of resolution is such that it is impossible to calibrate with the mind. 

The world is framed and simulated with coordinated radio information. From the overflow of information, we only classify, capture, purify, amplify, and edit it into valid information according to specific criteria as needed. Meanwhile, a structure that supports a three-dimensional object such as a radio telescope is called a 'space frame’.

Refining only the necessary stories from the flood of information and framing your own universe(space) seems to show the current situation.

-Architect Seungbum Ma