DNA LandscapeGwangju Design Biennale
Design revolution does not necessarily have to mean to a drastic nor dramatic change and instead can refer to a revolution of 'rediscovery', 're-establishment', and 'reproduction'.
LuminousGwangju Design Biennale
Since 2020, the paradigm of relationships has been changing amid major life changes underway around the world. In this time of prevailing uncertainty, it is necessary for us to prepare for even more powerful, revolutionary changes.
The overall theme is 'd-Revolution' and beyond, in relation to 5 keywords which are Data (information), Dimension (dimension), Day (everyday), Doing (action), and Description (expression). Thus, the message of the Theme Hall is to encourage visitors of the 2021 GDB to envision these themes automatically with d-Revolution, and beyond ━ just as we have already become accustomed to associating the concepts of 'convergence' and 'new technology' with the
4th Industrial Revolution ━ in order to reevaluate the world around us. For instance, analog interpretation of cuttingedge technology can be found in the Theme Hall.
d-Revolution, 2021 Gwangju Design BiennaleGwangju Design Biennale
Exhibition tour
From Color to EternityGwangju Design Biennale
From Color to Eternity
From Color to Eternity is beginning of 2021GDB. This installation piece synesthetically expresses the eternal beauty of nature. More than 4,000 paper blossoms symbolizing the blooming wisteria flower have been created by applying sophisticated laser and die.
From Color to EternityGwangju Design Biennale
The sculptural wall in the center and the mirror enveloping the entire space maximizes the effect of fantastic, endless scenery, producing a magical moment and timeless splendor that allows the artwork to communicate with the audience.
Unhealed LightGwangju Design Biennale
Unhealed Light
Gwang ju (光州: City of Light) is still a work in progress. Light is hopeful, but it can also be hopeless. In this respect, the value of light is interpreted differently depending on which perspective you see it from.
Unhealed LightGwangju Design Biennale
The artist is trying to show reality through these photographs. A person in the middle of an incomplete light ignores or distorts the social flow.
The Scent of May in GwangjuGwangju Design Biennale
The Scent of May in Gwangju
he flower of the Fringe Tree symbolizes Gwang ju in May and shares the meaning of May 18th (Gwangju Uprising), a day when rice balls were shared between citizens. We collected the scent of Fringe Tree around Gwangju City Hall in May 2021.
Theatrum BotanicumGwangju Design Biennale
Theatrum Botanicum
The Theatrum Botanicum or 'Plant Theatre' concept involves a stage where a drama of plants and gardens unfold.
Theatrum BotanicumGwangju Design Biennale
The Latin Theatrum Botanicum, which means botanical theater, is a book published by John Parkinson in 1640 and is a record about various herbs and plants. The exhibition embodies various aspects of the future garden by borrowing the concept of 'plant theater'.
XTRA(엑스트라)Gwangju Design Biennale
XTRA
With his 20 years of professional experience, Jun Hong Kim incorporates the trending images of cyberpunk and the metaverse into the alternate space of K-POP.
DNA LandscapeGwangju Design Biennale
DNA Landscape
DNA Landscape touches on the balance of yin and yang and the spirit of Eastern aesthetics with the subjects ‘Grand and Vigorous’ (雄渾) and ‘Limpid and Placid’ (沖澹) from Sikong Tu’s The Twenty-Four Styles of Poetry (二十四詩品).
Digital Windy Bamboo GroveGwangju Design Biennale
Digital Windy Bamboo Grove
When the audience passes by in the front of the forest-like ink-and-wash painting image of a bamboo forest, the bamboo sways with the sound of wind. Windy Bamboo Grove is an interactive artwork that reinterprets the ink paintings with digital sound and video.
LuminousGwangju Design Biennale
Luminous
Based in Jeju Island, artist explores lighting installations that recycle fish-luring lights in the sea. 'Luminous' produces a dreamy and mysterious glow, which conveys a strange aesthetic to the viewers.
TURN AROUNDGwangju Design Biennale
TURN AROUND
These beautifully sculpted wooden chairs explore the political and social-economic impact of the Pandemic. Turn Around entails mass mobilization and regime change and rapid and fundamental social, economic, and cultural shifts.
Stack and Stack (In Pandemic)Gwangju Design Biennale
Stack and Stack (In Pandemic)
Since the COVID-19, in just one month, 129 billion disposable masks have been dumped around the world. Haneul Kim hopes that the curiosity of the recycled masks does not stop at the object of chairs but evokes the seriousness of environmental pollution in the long term.
EunSil Lee_YoonGothicGwangju Design Biennale
Lee Eun-sil_YoonGothic
The chair, made by bending an iron plate from unprocessed raw material, resembles the simple and practical principle of Hangul. The type composition using of YoonGothic’s Hangul font was added to express the diversity, scalability, and infinite growth potential of Hangul.
Accoje entréeGwangju Design Biennale
Accoje entrée
In the day and night at sea, the island becomes the sea, and the sea becomes an island. The sea becomes a workplace for haenyeo (female divers in Jeju), and the island becomes a place of rest.
Bloc 2 and Bloc 3: Musée des Arts Décoratifs ParisGwangju Design Biennale
Bloc 2 and Bloc 3: Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris
The block can be a seat, a low table, or a stool. The designers in Normal Studio call it a ‘support’. They have done away with the legs to avoid defining the object by a stylistic element and steer clear of the usual stools and low tables models.