CHOI&CHOI Gallery presents 《HUMAN》, a 41-person group exhibition. We are fundamentally linked to the conditions of personhood from the moment we are born, and attempts to define and redefine the human experience have been made by philosophers, writers, and artists since the dawn of humanity.

In the era of Anthropocene where humanity’s impact on the material world is receiving increasing attention and scrutiny, we look to our artists for exploration of the contemporary human experience.

There is an endless list of facets to being human, and the experience is most of all personal and intrinsically subjective. Gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity, class, health, and other forms of positionality affect one’s experience of being human and how much power, freedom or autonomy they may exercise.

Factors both within and beyond the control of each person determine who they uniquely are, and the recent rise in AI technology has also prompted a discussion in expanding the definition of being human.

In this exhibition, 41 artists tell us who they are and how they perceive personhood. Paintings, sculptures, videos, portraits, abstracts. We present a diverse array of works each showing the artist’s own interpretation of the human condition, and provide a space for the viewers to re-examine what it means to exist as a person in today’s world.”

References

• 《휴먼(HUMAN)》