"Jellyfish Juice and Bitchondria” Poster ©Soorim Cultural Foundation
Jellyfish Juice and Bitchondria, a solo exhibition by Suji Han (b. 1991), will be on view from October 19 to November 4 at Kimheesoo Art Center.
Based on her multidisciplinary research, she explores the pathways between digital and physical spaces. In her research, which crosses the fields of data science, marine biology, astronomy, and physics, she creates a fictional being called “Bitchondria,” which combines the cellular organelle “mitochondria” with “bit,” a digital unit. The artist has constructed a pseudo-scientific narrative using bitchondria, which can move freely through all dimensions of space, and visualized it in video, three-dimensional, and web works.
Expanding on the previous tendency to focus on the definition or properties of the bitchondria, the artist traces the trajectory of the bitchondria’s activity in this exhibition. In the exhibition, the bitchondria explore the ocean floor to absorb the green fluorescent protein necessary for their reproduction. By exploring the new space of the ocean, the artist explores the infiltration of data into the human record.
The exhibition allows us to examine issues of the earth’s environment, history, and ecology from a new perspective.
