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Museum Ground | Chun young woon
Sammalo 122 (Gogi-dong 400-5), Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea, Museum Ground | T. 031-265-8200
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Museum Ground
Sammalo 122 (Gogi-dong 400-5), Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do,
Republic of Korea, Museum Ground
T. 031-265-8200
F. 031-265-8209
Museum Ground | Chun young woon | Sammalo 122 (Gogi-dong 400-5), Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea, Museum Ground | T. 031-265-8200
Copyright © 2023 Museum Ground. All rights reserved.
: 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 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.