A vulnerable being always desires armour. Tasty Shield invites soft and cartilage bones that have searched for the shell. ‘Surface’ is ultimately the first level we encounter. The exhibition imagines a landscape of the beneath.
Jieon Lee
A curator, adeptly connects scientific images— factual and fictional—with the emergence of new normality. Focused on various media and technologies utilising the body as a medium, she explores the intersection of scientific and societal shifts. Lee curated maltabiennale.art Thematic Pavilion Hybrid Landscape is Isolated (National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, 2024), A Deliberate and Rapid Transplant (Art Space Mullae, Seoul, 2023), Underwater Hibernation (PLACEMAK3, Seoul, 2021), among others.
Flora Lechner
Flora takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining sculpture, design and moving images. She examines the utility and handling suggested by an object or material. She tries to interrupt, repurpose or even overemphasise the suggestion by confronting the object with its absurdities. In this way, she plays with guidelines and imagination, exploring different levels of reality and challenging conventions. She participated in group shows such as Cruising (Huidenclub, Rotterdam, 2022).
Goo Gijeong
Goo explores the intricate interplay among humans, machines, and nature by transforming actual landscapes into digital imagery through 3D rendering and translating them into images and installations within physical spaces. Real landscapes, replicated by digital technology, converge with virtual elements of augmented reality, giving rise to an ambience that dwells on the borderline between reality and virtuality. He had for example the solo exhibition Contrology (Hall 1, Seoul, 2022).
Hansol Kim
Hansol explores fashion and clothing with an unwavering passion and obsession and delves into the multifaceted roles and formal possibilities of attire from the social, political, economic and cultural aspects. He has presented solo exhibitions Like a Cloth to a Frame (Sothu, Zurich, 2022), Anatomies in Limbo (Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2020), along with group shows such as What Things Dream About (The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2024) and others.
Siyoung Yang
Siyoung investigates the evolving relationship between digital culture and physical reality, focusing on how social phenomena manifest in visual and material forms. Her image replication translates the visual overload of contemporary digital life into physical objects and installations that serve as social commentary and are consumed as images within the endless cycle of digital consumption. She had for example the solo exhibition #ToiletpaperCrisis (Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven 2021).
