Exhibition poster of 《Delivery》

Korean artist Donghee Koo discovers peculiar corners of daily life, transforming them into spatial installations to reveal the three-dimensional structures of the truths and invisible worlds behind real-world phenomena. The exhibition 《Delivery》 focuses on complex networks of migration, summoning the movements that arise in those pathways and their shifting speeds into the gallery setting. 《Delivery》 starts with the idea of “deliveries”—a part of everyone’s lives today—to create an integrated exhibition that incorporates video and installation work referencing Art Sonje Center’s unique architectural structure.

Delivery services have undergone an explosive increase in use. With the growth of the Internet, a rise in single-person households, and developments in transportation systems, things have reached the point where there is almost nothing that cannot be delivered to your door. In a society of accelerated growth like Korea’s, speed has become a more important metric in deliveries than in any other area of services. Along with the speed contest exemplified by same-day deliveries, late night deliveries, and so-called “bullet deliveries,” it is now commonplace for every sort of food item to be delivered to homes. An artist who looks to everyday events and experiences to find subject matter for her work, Donghee Koo spotlights the delivery phenomenon in this exhibition. She transforms the delivery’s hallmark quality of speed—shifting the different perspectives in the surrounding environment, borrowing from the movements of delivery and distorting its temporal qualities to transpose them into an experience for the viewers moving through the exhibition space. The artist gathers data from TV, the Internet, and other popular media. Assembling the peculiar hidden aspects of the everyday that she uncovers in her search, she compresses and expands them into distorted images, or joins them to other bodies or phenomena. Through a change in perspective, these images meet installations of ever-shifting size and spatiality—“delivering” a peculiar sensory experience. As we walk inside the works formed through this mixture of impulse and planning, we may experience the true face of a present day that operates less by reason than by irrational intention—the “impurity of life.”

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