Invitation by Bear J from 2050

: Jung Chanboo

2021.04.22 – 2021.10.07

Invitation by Bear J from 2050
: Jung Chanboo

The geological era is largely classified into '-dae', '-gi', and '-se' whenever there is a major change in the history of the Earth, just like the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era, where dinosaurs went extinct leaving their own fossils. The term 'Anthropocene' has emerged as a term for the geological period, implying a form in which humanity directly influenced geological changes. This word, proposed by chemist Paul Krücheon, brings environmental issues closer in a new paradigm and is currently forming discourses in various fields.


Geologists who want to formalize the Anthropocene point to 'plastic' as a representative material that humans will leave in the optimal class. Artist Jeong Chan-bu uses waste plastic 'straw' among them as a material for his work. The starting point of this work was the moment when the artist sat in a cafe and captured the straw that was consumed and discarded in a short period of time. Among the consumption climate of modern society, where the limit of satisfaction is invisible, the unique characteristics of disposable products metaphorically for all the 'relationships' that we quickly forget.

The artist does not seek environmental protection messages with images such as dirty piles of plastic that are commonly expressed in the mass media. By replacing the bottleneck of plastic disposable products that are discarded without a sense of internal closeness with narratives containing individual vitality, the easily related and abandoned things are re-examined. This gaze extends to the extension of the phenomenon of artifacts replacing nature. The artist's intention to contain aesthetic value in the quality of the material itself is also added, and visitors feel brilliant but uncomfortable.


The exhibition will set a hypothetical message of the future that the wealthy "bear J" sends to the present humanity in the future time of 2050. 2050 is the time when the computer model "World 3," which played a key role in the Roman Club, a research institute that studies the future of the Earth, predicted the end of human civilization, and will be used as the virtual background of this exhibition. Bear J, one of the series "All Alone and Confidently," wanders this virtual space alone and invites us to a space at the end of the Anthropocene that sends a friendly warning to modern people.

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