Yeoreum Jeong reframes the story about a correlation between space and memory into visual language. Her work is a continuous process of fixated reinvestigation on a narrative, analyzing its mechanism and dismantling the body from parts.

Using a wide array of media based on interdisciplinary artistic approach, Sinae Yoo (b.1985) delves into problems underlying contemporary capitalist consumerism, such as ostentation and vanity, the commodification of sex, voyeurism, dehumanization, alienation, and other ethical issues.

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Heemin Chung, the winner of the 2022 DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Award in Visual Arts, is an artist who explores the new characteristics of today's images and ways of experiencing them through the traditional medium of painting. She emphasizes the gap and heterogeneity between the material world and the digital environment filled with overflowing images, and questions the way the individual exists in the changes and events that technology causes. What stands out in particular is the balanced development of the depth of media research on the post-internet sense and painting. Artist Heemin Chung breaks away from the traditional expression methods and fixed screens of painting, and creates her own screens through material experiments that model medium in an atypical way. She also uses printing or airbrush technology, and furthermore, she is showing notable activities, expanding her work to video work and spatial installation using 3D graphics.

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eobchae, the recipient of the 2021 DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards of Visual Arts, is a three-person collective comprising Nahee Kim, Cheon-seok Oh, and Hwi Hwang. Based on the development of the digital and online virtual world, they are working with interest in coding, programming, pseudo-reality technology, real and virtual space, and sound. eobchae is a generation that naturally embraces the consumption and production of digital and social networking system (SNS) technologies, their works are a kind of sci-fi system and/or sci-fi universe. Through the work they critically reveal today’s technologies and society by using or borrowing digital technologies and environments such as artificial intelligence, chatbots, SNS, and one-person media broadcasting. eobchae works with various media including video, sound, installation, and performance, and has been showing remarkable practices both in the online and offline space.

Kyoungtae Kim’s work asks to be read through the perspective on one single object. The familiar but unfamiliar image, where each point of an object is evenly rendered and magnified, calmly captures the viewer’s busy and frenzied gaze in one single place.

Kim Juwon, who was assessed to have demonstrated longevity in each cycle of work and depth rarely found in the recent art scene. His works weave together text, sound, or the lack thereof with the myriads of photographs he archived so consistently for over a decade.

Yi, her sensibility in leading the emotions through music and text, her sharp sense of performance, and her ability to play variations on the video to object installations and a completely disparate stage is evenly detailed and thoroughly harmonious. Yi’s portrayal of the world, strangely displaced and expanded through others and objects as shown in her recent solo exhibition, Client, makes us look forward to her anxious and disturbing perspective in the future.

Hayoun Kwon researches the possibilities in new media technology and presents various video works such as animation, documentary and 3D works. Her works integrate real and virtual, and shed light on the ideas of time, memory, identity and boundaries. In particular, she provides experiences of new and unfamiliar spacetimes by inviting the audience to actually enter and engage with the virtual space. Through this experience, she asks the audience to traverse across the boundaries between objective truth and fictional interpretation in the complexities of reality.

Heecheon Kim focuses on the life of people living in this day and age. His video works extend his real world to the virtual screen through the use of 3-D mapping and modelling programs.

Gwangsoo Park works with various mediums, including drawings using pen, ink or black acrylic paint, as well as animations based on such drawings.

Hoin Lee captures scenes of reality surrounding him ? such as nature, city and objects on canvas using distinctive colors and composition. Feelings of anxiety and stability coexist in his images which seem both unreal and real.

Kang Jungsuck focuses on the unstable life of his generation and observes and collects the everyday life of people surrounding him. He documents repetitive lethargic activities of an individual on the video, and casts a realistic look on the absurd society and its system.

Min Oh's video works combine objet sculpture, performance and music. She controls the situation through a series of regulations, and the subjects in her video works maintain their relationship with each other and their tension through controlled movement. In Oh's work, new system is formed through the repetition of a simple structure, and the new situation created through this system reaches balance and completes the narrative.

Mok-Yon Yoo uses various mediums including installation, photography and drawing to work diversely across the social and individual domains and to expand the artistic realm. His art practice with its own language endlessly strives for new artistic alternatives between the real and the virtual world, by demonstrating the possibility of reconciliation between the severed relationships between individuals through his audience-participatory performances, or his guidebook to surviving the individualistic society.

Dongju Kang initiates her works from the fundamental question of what painting is; thus, her works go on to become a pictorial language that is a means of communicating with the world. Distancing herself from an artistic outlook that approaches solely from familiar senses, the artist utilizes drawings to document the movement of the object she pursues, embodying its path while carefully approaching the existing things that surround her with the gazes of others.

Jungju An uses diverse media such as video, photography, and sound to focus on society, institutions, and a reality that we might easy overlook as we gradually become desensitized to it. His works destroy once-familiar outlooks through different senses, reconstruct them, and give way to a new order so as to effectively rediscover reality in the process of making familiar things unfamiliar.

Yunsung Lee addresses western classical painting by borrowing the form of manga to expose human desire. The figures in his works resemble and carry the outlooks of the idealized youthful female characters prevalent in Japanese otaku culture.

Minae Kim is a sculptor. Recently, “sculptors” have become a rarity; nevertheless, she has established herself as a young sculptor who, while extending the traditional concept of sculpture, strives to interpret reality and provoke its transformation, rather than simply representing it.

Na Kim is a graphic designer with excellent taste, an artist who has already established a solid reputation with regard to her ability; and her creative ideas shatter the traditional boundary between graphic design and art.

Jeamin Cha also majored in fine art, she has attempted to create an exquisite connection between performance and video, and has produced artworks that are experimental and innovative with regard to their contents and technical execution.

Sangdon Kim ’s art encompasses various genres including photography, sculpture, installation art, film, and performing arts. He rediscovers underappreciated materials and marginalized sceneries.

Ji Eun Kim’s paintings and installations deal with social institutions and regulations that underlie the landscapes of the enormous modern city, thereby emphasizing the “institutionalized landscapes” around us.

CHANG Jia offers a direct and radical critique of our society including the art scene in Korea today. She resists and questions the social stereotypes and tacit taboos in the conservative Korean society.

Joo Yeon Park has in earlier work dealt with social ties and the relationship between institutions and individuals.

Sojung Lee has been attempting to create an order within her abstract paintings, rendered in traditional ink painting style to capture an imaginary world of a growing monster.

The biggest appeal of Jaye Rhee’s art would be that while her works appear seemingly loose and simple, there is something deeply touching in the human body laid bare, and also that they are based on her plain and direct sense of humor. Her artistic depth and popular appeal lead to our anticipation of her growth as an artist.

MeeNa Park explores the world of ready-made colors and shapes. Her work, characterized by an obsessive and autistic collection of study objects, followed.

In recent years, Siyeon Kim has been creating fantastic fairy-tale narratives with various materials and methods, which delicately touch on the emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, which every person possesses.

Donghee Koo’s videos could qualify as independent feature films, but they arecloser to a type of simulation game for exploring the ecosystem of the heart,which, from its premise, parts ways with movies that are based on narratives.