K-NOW! Korean Video Art Reimagined
As a branding curator I champion bold narratives that shift cultural conversation. This dispatch captures South Korea’s urgent, cinematic video art, assembled at MASI Lugano. Curator Je Yun Moon rejects easy canons, choosing living artists who interrogate memory, migration, labour, and the body. The exhibition moves between intimate VR, lush landscape installations, and confrontational body horror. Each piece reframes familiar forms, from fast-food deliveries to Cold War forests, into potent, contemporary allegories.
Chan-kyong Park’s Citizens’ Forest is a trancelike three-screen meditation. Ayoung Kim’s neon nocturnes follow a delivery driver through interdimensional Seoul, a vivid, Michael Mann-like nocturnal fantasia. Onejoon Che blends humour and diaspora in Made in Korea. 업체eobchae confronts viewers with visceral, AI-tinged body horror in ROLA ROLLS. Sojung Jun’s Green Screen uses the DMZ as a living, glitching ecosystem, reframing geopolitics as ecological wonder. The review on Creative Boom contextualises these works within global moving image practice. Read on to understand how Korean video art is reshaping gallery cinema, public space, and our image-saturated present.
This concise, vivid review spotlights artists rewriting moving image traditions, offering fresh entry points for collectors, curators, and curious visitors. Read, learn, respond.
Source: www.creativeboom.com
