Impermanence is front and centre in Jungki Baek’s is of Dumulmeori 2024-1 (2025), a photograph printed with pigments extracted from fallen leaves and sealed within oxygen-free acrylic chambers. The intensive scientific process behind the work’s creation – grinding leaves into dye, stabilizing their hues in controlled environments – takes on a devotional character. The image documents both an act of preservation and that act’s inevitable failure; natural colour becomes a chronicle of disappearance. The show closes quietly, with Min Jung Song’s Scene (2022): a smartphone video accompanied by faint breezes from nearby fans. Its drifting narration and looping, endless rain evoke the rhythm of fleeting time: memory experienced as weather, endlessly returning yet never quite the same. The installation invites solitary viewing, offering a rare pause for reflection amid a dense show where artists navigate, from so many angles, the frictions of language, material and place.
20 November 2025
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