금호미술관

SONG Seungjoon​

studioseungjoon@gmail.com

Seungjoon Song challenges the romanticized view of nature by revealing its eerie and paradoxical dimensions through imaginative storytelling and immersive installations. Expanding his ecological inquiries into uninhabited zones like the DMZ, CEZ, and FEZ, this exhibition centers on An Essay by a Proximian (2025), a speculative text from a fictional character's perspective. Set in the airborne refugee settlement of Proxima, the story envisions nature as shaped by lived experience, following a protagonist navigating a dystopian future while obsessively pursuing infinite wind as a finite being. The exhibited works translate this vision into physical form: black-surfaced furniture, diamond-shaped windows, faint green afterimages, and the ever-present sound of wind. These elements evoke a hauntingly unfamiliar landscape—eschewing post-apocalyptic ruin for the unsettling unease of a verdant sanctuary. By subverting archetypal symbols and dismantling the binary framework that objectifies nature, Song proposes a new ecological perspective. Through an open-ended structure and spatial composition, he underscores nature's perpetual cycle of creation and destruction.