Ham Yang-ah's "Undefined Panorama 4.0" installed at Art Sonje Center in Seoul / Courtesy of Art Sonje Center
Media artist Ham Yang-ah has returned to Art Sonje Center after 16 years with a panoramic meditation on crisis, coexistence and listening, in a new solo exhibition that expands her long-term research project into an immersive, circular universe of images, bodies and voices.
Ham Yang-ah / Courtesy of Art Sonje Center
The exhibition, titled “Yang Ah Ham: Undefined Panorama,” brings together new and existing works from the artist’s eight-year project “Undefined Panorama,” which dissects contemporary social systems — from finance and politics to education and labor — through layered video installations and diagrams.
First launched in the wake of the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster that shook Korean society, the project began with a simple but urgent question: “As an artist, what should I do?” Ham recalled in a press briefing Thursday, explaining she wanted to understand “where all this pain begins,” beyond the scale of individual lives.
