Proxima B

2022.12.23.−29.
Jioong Kang, Sangha Khym, Soomin Shin, Woochan Jung
Jungganjijeom I
Curated by Sangha Khym
Design by Dabin Kim

As an Earth inhabitant, I constantly strive to communicate with my sister living on Proxima B. However, the two of us are so far apart that it takes four years for light from Proxima B to reach Earth, meaning that what we perceive as the present is already the past, and attempts to find a moment that corresponds with the present repeatedly fail. The exhibition title, Proxima B, refers to an exoplanet mentioned in Carlo Rovelli’s example. The four artists (Jioong Kang, Sangha Khym, Soomin Shin, and Woochan Jung) treat a pile of black-and-white images, captured two years ago, as if they were transmitted by unusual light from Proxima B. They embody these scenes of distant space-time and re-display the new times they generated in the exhibition space. By materializing these individual, warped, retrogressed, and overlapping sensations of time in Proxima B, the exhibition aims to bend the temporality of photographic media, which traditionally exists within a linear timeline.
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Jioong Kang captures the latent dynamism found in ascending and descending objects through photography. For this exhibition, he molds wax representations of objects that, due to their form, often elude easy capture, creating small gaps on their surface to secure tiny printed images. This approach resonates with humanity’s attempts to connect with unreachable times and places, such as the Moon Museum on Apollo 12, launched in 1969, or the Golden Records affixed to Voyager, launched in 1977. These constructed objects are placed on a steel plate stretching across one side of the exhibition space, recording the continuous flow of light streaming in through the gallery’s windows.
(text by Sangha Khym, translated by ChatGPT)