Installation view of 《Sensory Projection》 © Gallery Planet

The world is constructed through our sensory organs and the frameworks of perception formed through sensation, and it can never be perceived in exactly the same way by everyone. Even when we believe that we are seeing the world “as it is,” that gaze may be the result of a “projection” reflecting one’s emotions, ways of thinking, experiences, and beliefs. Reality is therefore always constructed differently according to “the way I sense and look at it.”

Based on this premise, 《Sensory Projection》 considers the act of “projection” through “sensation,” the most fundamental way of perceiving the world, and seeks through this to approach the essence of art. Each artist expands perceptual structures in which sensation and meaning intersect by projecting information, and realizes complex forms of projection that reflect sensory experience through frameworks of measurement and coordinate mapping.

The exhibition also projects sensation and constructs the world by recording processes in which natural contingency and human sensation intervene simultaneously, and by converting the immaterial element of weather into matter and sensory traces.

Shinae Kim questions the fundamental elements of form—point, line, and plane—and sees form not as a fixed entity, but as an “event” that arises within relationships and environments. Using digital material, the artist visualizes momentarily occurring forms through the concept of the “line,” while revealing structural events where matter and immateriality, information and sensation intersect through wood veneer, a natural material.

In her work, projection moves beyond simple representation and expands into the very process through which information, sensation, and environment interact to generate form. This may be understood as an artistic methodology that transforms invisible structures into sensory reality.

Suyeon Kim’s main subjects have been things that once existed but disappeared, or things that are invisible yet clearly exist. After her early works, in which she transformed texts excerpted from encyclopedias, botanical guides, and books of erotic paintings into three-dimensional forms and then into still-life compositions, she has recently continued painterly experiments that translate the immaterial element of weather into matter.

She collects the colors of the sky each day and records the cracks and traces produced as the material of medium responds to temperature and humidity. This visualizes the fact that “every day is different,” even within repeated everyday life, and reveals an attitude of accepting contingency and the intervention of nature. Her paintings, which capture invisible exchanges between sensation and time, nature and humans, delicately reveal the essence of sensory projection.

Hyungjin Park systematically records the changing colors of nature based on subjective sensation and experience, capturing everyday landscapes within the passage of time. His ‘Color Dot’ series goes beyond simple color expression, reducing the state of nature into visual indicators and functioning as a kind of recording device that explores the relationship between humans and nature.

Through a structural framework resembling graph paper, the artist maps nature onto coordinates and visually projects it, placing private experience and sensation within an objectified format. This expands the traditional concept of projection into a complex mode of projection that encompasses sensory, social, and ecological layers.

Art is an act of capturing phenomena beyond sensed reality and newly projecting them through the artist’s perspective and point of view. Through the works of three artists who understand the world based on sensation as a fundamental mode of perception and visualize it in different ways, this exhibition proposes a reflection on the essence of art.

These artistic practices also awaken viewers to themselves as subjects who construct reality through sensation, revealing that each person is a being who “projects” the world in their own way. May this exhibition become a site of thought in which art and sensation, subject and world interact and circulate.

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