Exhibition Information

			The research started from contemporary images of ‘last man’, as illustrated in David Fincher’s Fight Club, Suzumi Izuki’s Terminal Boredom, and notions of doomers, Satory generation, hikikomori, etc. From these hopeless images of impotent human beings today, we examined its sedative culture providing technologically assisted ecstasies with automated machines, porns, hormones, games, narcotics, multiverses, and other extra-human agencies. Though seemingly hopelessly gloomy, it seems there is radical potential in this extreme tendency of nihilistic, escapist humans in late capitalism. Its pursuit of direct, mediocre pleasure and security is reaching a point where it is breaking the conventional boundary of reality and fiction/fantasy: sabotaging the paradigmatic modes of being and writing its own meaning of being in the world. 


From this context, the exhibition aims to represent artists’ practice that reflects the ironic relationship of introverted withdrawal and emancipation, sedative technologies and ecstasies, implosion and explosion, possibility and impossibility of the last man. 

Curated by Jinho Lim
Poster design : Downleit Jaeyoung Park X Jiyoun Cha
Structure design : Juntae Noh
Supported by ARKO

(Source = out_sight)