Exhibition Information

			In the face of our omnipresent aspirations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and science and technology, the 2020 ARKO Art Center Thematic Exhibition Diplopia aims to examine the phenomena in which science and technology intertwine with capitalism. It further attempts to see the world behind this biopolitical sphere that is deeply ingrained in our lives, bodily senses, and cognitive systems. Diplopia questions the possibility of escaping the world of technology and market economy that repeatedly subsume human subjectivities. If not possible, the exhibition will instead explore our perceptual and sensory conditions morphed by machine-system relations, and anticipate the transmuted future yet to come.

The title of the exhibition refers to a medical condition called “diplopia,” or a “double vision.” The show takes these terms as a symptomatic condition of our world bound by science, technology, and market economy, and attempts to discover dual vision ingrained in them. Through these attempts, the show leads us to face human alienation, a pathological reality that lies behind technological fetishism; it also leads us to collectively imagine a renewed and reciprocal relationship between humans and non-humans.

The participating artists explore issues of labor and body overshadowed by systems of capitalism and technology. They also explore images of humanity captured by machines, reveal anxiety, or display visions of the near future with moving images and sounds. The double structure of the exhibition space, divided into two floors, leads us to organically connect and interpret the works. And the rest is left for our imaginations to fill in the chapters yet to come.