Korea-UK Exchange Exhibition: Sensuous Panorama

Sep 8, 2006 – Sep 24, 2006 2006 Lounge Gallery London, United Kingdom
Artist:
Jaeeon Byun
Korea-UK Exchange Exhibition: Sensuous Panorama

Exhibition Background

Sensuous Panorama was a Korea-UK exchange exhibition held at Lounge Gallery in London from September 8 to September 24, 2006. Planned jointly by SEO Gallery and Lounge Gallery, the exhibition set out to present contemporary sensibilities shaped by different geographic environments and social experiences in one place, functioning as an international platform where artists working in Seoul and London intersected.

In this exhibition, Jaeeon Byun presented Prayer, a work from the Boundaries of Digital and Analog II series that was sent to the UK for the exchange. Combining hologram, computer circuitry, and light within a single installation, the work created an environment in which physical space and cyber space appeared to overlap. It stands as an example of how Jaeeon Byun’s practice operated effectively within an international exchange setting, showing his ability to work across plastic arts and new media.

Artwork: Prayer

Presented in this exhibition, Prayer is a 2006 work from the Boundaries of Digital and Analog II series, made with plastic paper on wall, aluminum on painting, hologram, and neon. Including the wall painting, the overall dimensions are 480 x 245 x 13 cm. The work links holographic imagery, computer circuitry, and light reactions to create a setting in which viewers encounter the cyber world and physical reality at the same time.

Within the work, the circuit structure, hologram, and reactions of light do not function merely as technical devices. Instead, they operate as a visual language that reveals layers of identity formed within a digital environment. As material surfaces and immaterial images intersect within a single field, the boundaries between reality and virtuality, and between the analog and the digital, shift from fixed categories into something experienced through sensation.

Prayer introduced Jaeeon Byun’s holography-based practice within an international exchange context and showed that the media language he had developed in the mid-2000s could form a clear sculptural vocabulary outside Korea as well.