Solaris Ocean

Mioon is an artist duo composed of Kim Min Sun and Choi Moon Sun. Specialized in video and media installation, the two artists have been working together before working as a collective became a popular mode of working in the Korean art scene. Mioon produced a number of works with an interest in the audience, the crowd, and the group. Since 2008, Mioon has been creating works with a slightly different point of focus : individuals in the crowd, along with relations and situations that surround them. A new work for the current exhibition, Solaris* Ocean focuses on the chronicle of Mioon in the art scene for the last fourteen years. The work captures the continuous expansion and extinction that exist in the art scene as momentary states, visualizing them as an organic network. Based on items in publicly available databases online, Mioon and the environment around its work (i.e. various formations of human resource and different institutions) are represented in diverse colors and materials.

* Solaris: A science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky. In the film, Solaris appears as a planet covered by a gelatinous ocean as if it is an enormous brain. The scientists from the Earth one attempting to find out about the sentient ocean of the planet Solaris.