The 2nd SEOUL in MEDIA FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER interpreted the organic and temporary urban environment as a form of media and introduced many works of variable and non-linear formats, in opposition to existing art styles. Most of the exhibition’s participating artists were members of the younger generation and thus armed with an overtly experimental spirit, leaving vivid memories of the energetic fervor in the exhibition hall. Ahn Kyuchul’s For Vincent, presented by this exhibition, is comprised of an amorphous hole made of plaster, a traditional material for sculpture, which was situated inside a mass-produced pot. Opposed against visual languages and spatial utilizations that exist as mere functions in the everyday environment, this work questions on how we recognize and divides concepts of familiarity and awkwardness, morphous and amorphous, art and non-art, shape and state, and significance and insignificance, existence and non-existence, thus interrogating the role of art itself.
