Eunju Hong views the process of technological evolution as a reflection of human desire, focusing on the fragility and violence inherent within it. Based on research into the history of technological development, the artist employs performance, experimental video, and installation to elevate the collisions between technology and emotion, matter and memory into a form of poetic tension, attentively examining the points where personal and social wounds overlap.
 
Medical technologies, optical devices, and automated nonhuman agents—systems created by humans “to improve life”—paradoxically expose the incompleteness of human existence. Eunju Hong empathizes with these technological mechanisms and the emotions of loss, oppression, and alienation they leave behind, reconfiguring them through embodied memory and trauma.
 
Eunju Hong’s practice—woven from fragmentary images and incomplete shards of emotion—asks us to reconsider the boundaries of “being human” not through logical comprehension, but through intuitive confrontation. By unfolding the collisions between technology and emotion, matter and memory as a form of poetic tension, her work brings to the surface multilayered networks of relations that lie beneath or are concealed within the present moment. In doing so, it prompts questions such as, “Where am I positioned?” or “What is it that I am seeing?”