https://platform-l.org/exhibition/detail?exhibitionNo=824

2023.03.24 - 2023.06.28

플랫폼엘 컨템포러리 아트센터

갤러리 2, 3 / 아넥스 2, 3 / 머신룸 (B3)

참여작가

고휘, 안성석, 안성환, 염인화, 장시재, 후니다 킴, 해미 클레멘세비츠

플랫폼엘 컨템포러리 아트센터는 오는 3월 24일부터 6월 28일까지 특별기획전 《팬텀 센스 (Phantom Sense)》를 개최합니다. 《팬텀 센스》는 시각예술에서 중심적으로 여겨져 온 시각을 넘어 새로운 감각을 통한 감상의 가능성을 실험하는 장입니다. 본 전시에서는 청각, 후각, 미각 등 다양한 감각을 경유하여 작업을 이어 나가는 7인의 작가들을 소개합니다. 인간 중심의 감각을 인지하는 방식에서 벗어나 비인간의 감각 세계의 다변적 인지 체계를 상상하게 함으로써 인류가 생태계를 이해하고 균형 있게 바라볼 수 있는 대안적 방법을 제시합니다.

PLATFORM-L CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

Gallery 2, 3 / Annex 2, 3 / machine Room (B3)

Artist

Kohui, Sungseok Ahn, Sunghwan Ahn, Inhwa Yeom, Sijae Jang, Hoonida Kim, Rémi Klemensiewicz

Living in modern society, we suffer from sensory overload due to too much noise and information. For this reason, in Silicon Valley, a method of cutting off all forms of social contact for a short period of time, called “dopamine fasting,” was popular. But let's think about it. Excessive stimuli are usually accepted through hearing and sight. The experience of suffering from too many smells or tastes will be unfamiliar. Perhaps the real problem lies in balancing the sensations rather than overstimulation per se.

In 《 Phantom Sense 》, the sense of sight, which has been considered central in the visual arts, is placed on the same level as various senses such as hearing, taste, and touch, which are considered secondary. French theorist Bruno Latour mentions the concept of "Thing Politics” in his article 「From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik」 (2005), and explains that equating human with non-human is suggested as a methodology for mankind to understand the ecology and move toward a balanced state. Using sight as the most powerful sensory means is only a way of human cognition. Dolphins grasp the world through ultrasonic waves, and mantis crayfish grasp the world through visual perception, which detects infrared rays, leaving the human five senses.

This exhibition introduces seven artists who express not only the five senses, such as smell, touch, and sight, but also multiple senses, such as echolocation and electromagnetic wave detection. Each work allows us to experience variations in the multiple senses of 'non-human' such as animals, plants and objects like X-ray machines, and this displaces the multiple senses that we abstractly perceive in various ways, such as making sounds tactile, hearing smells, and showing tastes. Through this process, we try to experiment with thinking from human to non-human, and from the center to the periphery, overturning the hierarchy between the senses in visual arts, where the sight is the main focus, especially in the context of exhibitions.

An apple placed on a desk will be recognized by humans as a red sphere, whereas a grasshopper will recognize it as a sweet smell, and a mantis crayfish as a wavelength. Even we as the same human being can look at an apple in different ways, not necessarily dividing the species. If we can accept the concept that our perception of a single phenomenon or material can be multivariable, perhaps we can expand our capacity for empathy and connection with others and the world.