“Planet Nine” Installation view ©SeMA
Nam-Seoul Museum of Art presents “Planet
Nine” through October 27, as part of the ‘SeMA Omnibus’, an exhibition of works
from the Seoul Museum of Art’s collections.
The SeMA Omnibus is a large-scale
collection exhibition presented at the main branch and three branch museums of
the Seoul Museum of Art, in keeping with the museum’s 2024 institutional
agenda, “connection.” “Planet Nine,” held at the Nam-Seoul Museum of Art,
explores questions generated by non-human actors, animate or inanimate, through
the museum collection and reflects on the contemporary situation in which
everything is hyperconnected and the interactions and relationships between
humans and non-humans have come to the fore. Further, the exhibition envisions
a planet on which humans are no longer central but, rather, coexist with
disparate beings equally and without hierarchy.
The exhibition is organized into three
parts: 'Machines and Humans', 'Infiltrating Beings', and 'Invisible Things'. In
"Machines and Humans," Bokyung Jun and Changsun Koh examine the
influence of the emergence of machines and robots on humans and art, while in ‘Infiltrating
Beings,’ Eunji Cho, Haejung Jung, and Moonjung Hwang reveal the connections
between humans and non-humans, such as organic and inorganic beings, while
navigating between the real and the virtual, and expose an ecosystem that is
entangled with a variety of beings, while ‘Invisible Things’ introduces the
works by Ji Hye Yeom, Mioon, Jung Seung, and Jung Phil Shin uncover the meaning
of easily forgettable beings by concentrating on and examining things that
exist but are not easily seen.
