Exhibition Information

Kim Jun_strengthened Fragments
2017 29.7×21cm

Amanda Marchand_No Title Required(from Lumen Notebook)
2019 Archival Pigment Print 53×65cm

Amanda Marchand_The Lumen Project: Lumen Circle Ⅲ
2019 Archival Pigment Print 230×222cm

Jeon So-Jung_12 Rooms
2014 Single-channel HD video, color, stereo sound

			Bringing together sound, image, book, video and text, the exhibition looks at the relationship between intuition and reason focusing on the spaces between these different media. Artists who express synesthesia through photography, sound and video; artist/publishers who interpret books as objects of creative expression and produce them as original works of art; and the books themselves, introducing stories about all the  senses—all of these forms of expression produce spaces of different sensibilities, allowing viewers an immersive experience. We invite you to a newly transformed Datz space, where sensual perception and reason freely cross borders.

Synesthesia : The Space Between 

During 2019, Datz Museum of Art organized three exhibitions based on the theme of pluralistic space. Starting with a poetic space made by combining text and image (Image Poetics), followed by a painterly space where the texture of abstraction became the temperature of lyricism and narrative (The Texture of Temperature), it will conclude with a space of synesthesia that can be experienced as a combination of senses existing in different forms. This exhibition will also be about the creative process of art, where individual senses and visual experience connect as one.

Among all the senses and cognitive abilities that make us feel alive, one could say that vision is the most important. As in the saying, life begins as we open our eyes and ends when we close them, the lifetime of our visual experiences are what we remember as the appearance of the world. Mysteriously, the sense of sight is not limited to the eyes, but combines all sensuous experiences, including the tactile sense, memory and cognition. The process of how the human brain perceives the world through different senses linked to vision is still uncharted territory yet to be fully understood.

The first exhibition space, with a combination of light, sound and books, is composed of multiple senses that receive information from the outside, intuitively. Here traces of time and light are captured through photographic methods, and sound waves are expressed abstractly (Amanda Marchand, Alyssa Minahan, Michael Meyer); sounds related to memory have been collected and installed (Joon Kim); and artist books featuring the materialization of the senses, as well as related projects by a culturally diverse group of publishers are on display.

Another part of the museum features books that reveal the process of thought, how the information of the world is perceived. A book connects to the outer world by providing individual memories recalled within the mind. The visual experience of seeing the world through books is highly subjective. That is because image and text woven together in countless stories with different senses are communicated intimately through the tactile sense.

In the final part of the exhibition, viewers enter a dark room where a video (Sojung Jun) questions the different means of existence of light and sound. Here sensuous feelings are conveyed abstractly, and their afterimages interconnect in the space of thought composed by the artist, thus opening infinitely.

It is said that creative thought begins from unexpected encounters and connections. The past decade of partnership between Datz Museum of Art and Datz Press has been a journey of books and exhibitions connected as one. As many of our books, conceived first as inner spaces, were expanded into the form of the physical exhibition space, Datz Press’s books have met a greater diversity of readers from the wider world. What we want to draw is not "here" or "there," but a living universe where all existing spaces "in between" are interconnected. It is time to prepare for another decade-long voyage, with faith in an art that reconnects everything that has been severed and revives the spirit and plurality of senses that make us all unique.

Sangyon Joo - Director