JOO SLA, One day, the lemon yellow disappeared, 2022, mixed media ©Seoul Museum of Art
From October 5 to 29, SeMA Storage will present Nomel’s Tracking Log, a solo exhibition by JOO SLA (b. 1980). JOO SLA is interested in the fictionalized world of subcultures and uses animation, 3D sculptures, and games as media.
The exhibition starts with a lemon that disappears from the artist’s home one day and shows the process of tracking its whereabouts. In the process of the search, the lemon continues to change and becomes something different from what it was originally known as. The installation work < One day, the lemon yellow disappeared >(2022) embodies this process of recognition. In the work, lemons are presented within a maze-like structure in the form of research information about their origin and distribution, short essays about the disappearance of lemons, and 3D-printed lemons. The interest in the transformability of objects extends beyond lemons to the human body. In the video work < GUMMY > (2023), an uncanny sensation of the body is expressed, stemming from the experience of accidentally swallowing a spider. Sculptures near the video, woven with white thread, recall the fragmented and disparate body.
In this way, Nomel’s Tracking Log traces the metamorphosis of objects and reconsiders our perception of them.
