Exhibition Information

			<A Thousand Leaves Exist in a Thousand Different Ways> features plants, beings that speciously seem peaceful. In reality, their lives are ruthlessly competitive, and especially, these are the portraits of plants and their leaves fighting for survival in the Anthropocene — the harshest environment the earth has known to date. Portrait refers to “a representation or description of something” but, in most cases, the portrait is “a representation of a person, especially of the face, in a photograph, painting, etc.” Because a portrait is, in essence, a representation or description, it exists only while it is perceived by a being. In other words, while there are beings that cannot be perceived, there are no portraits that cannot be perceived. Humans view themselves as the center of the universe and see nature as a resource. Humans divide nature into categories and concepts, but none of them are actually capable of confining nature. Nature exists independently, ever-changing. <A Thousand Leaves Exist in a Thousand Different Ways> focused on the plant’s way of life, how it never limits itself into one shape, how it always slips into another mold and changes its portrait. The media work recreates the way plants have survived the Anthropocene and simultaneously forecasts the future, urging the viewer to contemplate “plantness,” the quality of constantly changing and proactively interacting with the world. – Soogyeong Woo is a designer, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. Working at the borders between human and technology, technology and nature, and nature and human, she examines their organic relatedness and explores the possibility of their coexistence. Woo was a designer at Samsung Electronics’ Design Team for ten years, defining and proposing new products, usability, and interactions using various platforms and technologies, including mobile phones, TV, augmented reality, flexible display and IoT. Currently, Woo is experimenting with ways of combining digital mediums and technologies with material objects and traditional mediums, pioneering the limits of expression and communication. @growing_zero

(source = Post Territory Ujeongguk)