Liquid Purgatory 2023 and Choir

Focus Art Fair London 2023

Saatchi Gallery

London, Uk

Collaboration with Studio SMA

2023

Abysmal Orbit

Youngeum Museum of Contemporary Art

Gwangju, South Korea

2024

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?

Choir, Digital Drawing, 2023

Reyner Banham claimed a possibility of nomadic life by means of hyper technology; people can live anywhere as long as electricity, plumbing, and communication devices are connected. 

His vision forecasted today's world that geological, climate, physical, and cultural conditions are overcome and neutralized by the installation of technological infrastructure. Everyone can connect to the world- information- easily. In the homogenous situation, it seems the world has become more democratic and equal. 

However, the deep-learning algorithm facilitated by the media industry captures and filters personal interest and taste, and eventually narrows down to a specific direction. One can believe one's perspective is correct without knowing his/her idea is manipulated. An act of repeatedly accessing to media became a kind of personal ritual to confirm and to reassure his perspective and to find relief. Different opinions are not exposed or ignored. The reconstructed electric pylon echoes the situation like a choir.

-Architect Seungbum Ma