“1≥∞” Installation view at Pluripotent Art Space ©Pluripotent Art SpaceFrom August 4 to August 17, Pluripotent Art Space will present 1≥∞ (1 is greater than or equal to ∞), a solo exhibition by artist Sanghyun Koh.
Koh is an artist who has been exploring existence based on his interest in the universe. He deals with the components of the universe in his works and experiments with the gaps between things that are considered axiomatic mythology within the science.
This exhibition is an extension of this tendency, and it seems that the artist is trying to prove human existence in a logical way. < Blue Shift > (2021) depicts 91 constellation maps using the artist’s own discharges, such as hair, tears, and dust, as pigments. The artist juxtaposes his own process of creating discharges with the universe’s process of creating dust to reveal their similarities. The title of the work, ‘blueshift’, refers to the opposite of ‘redshift’, a phenomenon in which the wavelength of light shortens as it approaches a luminous object, making it appear blue. The blueshift in the work is interpreted as the opposite of cosmological redshift. In this case, we can say that the universe is shrinking to a single point, and the artist connects this context to the plausibility of existence by saying that the universe is converging on an individual.
In the exhibition, you will be able to join the artist on his journey as he explores these larger discourses of space and existence.
