The Wild Bunch Vol.2

About the exhibition

Humanity is passing through an ironic era in which the boundary between physical reality and immaterial illusion is dissolving, and the conditions of the real world are increasingly influenced by the online environment. The exhibition The Wild Bunch vol.2 highlights four emerging artists whose material explorations and conceptual discussions are grounded in the specificity of this moment. Moon Mean, Yeun Song, Yongbin Lee, and Soohyun Chung intentionally step away from the commercialized logic of visual art forms such as sculpture, painting, and installation. As a generation of digital natives, they focus on reimagining the layers of images they have encountered in and around media reality into distinctive forms and concepts, instead of sinking into the illusion of hyperreality. The artists engage with information stored on smartphones or circulating online, incorporating the rules and limits of architecture, manufactured goods, animation derivatives, and the effects of digital editing programs. This process entails the introduction of their own formative logic and characteristic textures. For example, they create the surfaces on which the images are placed by hand, or by mixing different materials, and achieve a variable state in which each element can be freely combined or disassembled as needed. Sharing a loose interest in virtual and real places, the creation and destruction of space, and the convergence and dislocation of physical constraints, their works do not converge