Unreformed Images

Hallie Ayres

Park Chan-kyong, Monk Hyetong, 2025. oil on canvas. 80 × 80 cm (2 works); 112 × 161 cm. Courtesy of the artist. The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of Spirit. Seoul Museum of Art, 2025. Photo: Hong Cheolki

Park Chan-kyong, *Monk Hyetong*, 2025. oil on canvas. 80 × 80 cm (2 works); 112 × 161 cm. Courtesy of the artist. The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale *Séance: Technology of Spirit*. Seoul Museum of Art, 2025. Photo: Hong Cheolki

Hallie Ayres is an Artistic Director of the 13th edition of Seoul Mediacity Biennale and a co-curators of Cosmos Cinema, the 14th Shanghai Biennale. She works as Associate Director of e-flux.

Research Title

Unreformed Images
Participants

Hallie Ayres
Publishing Date

2025-09-11
Languages

Korean
Editions

SMB13
Categories

Essay
Keywords

history local séance

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Research Title Unreformed Images

Category Essay

Edition The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale

Author Hallie Ayres

The English version of this essay can be found in e-flux journal #156, a special issue for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit.

Link: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/156/6776741/unreformed-images

It will also be available on this SMB website from mid-October.

This essay is originally commissioned for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Catalogue, Séance: Technology of the Spirit (Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, Mediabus, 2025), scheduled for publication on October, 2025. With the author’s consent, it is being published in advance on the Seoul Mediacity Biennale website and e-flux Journal. No part of this essay may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author, Seoul Museum of Art and Mediabus, Seoul.