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Dates
Oct 2, 2026 — Oct 25, 2026
Place
Gana Art · 28 Pyeongchang 30-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul; 28 Pyeongchang 30-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Admission at the time
Free
Facts last checked
2026-10-17
First preserved here
2026-10-05

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Gana Art Hannam presents Clearview Mechanism, a solo exhibition by Goo Gijeong (b. 1990), who explores relationships between humans, nature and machines. Selected for the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s arts creation support programme, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Gana Art. Through 12 works, it examines the exploration of digital technology and nature continued since the 2025 group exhibition The Garden of Forking Paths. Through photography, graphics, video and installation, Goo uses technology to make familiar natural landscapes strange, focusing on the conditions and processes that form an image rather than the finished image. The exhibition begins by making these underlying conditions visible. At the entrance, Transparency Visual Device places LED boards, photographs and rendered images together within a transparent steel frame, exposing the light and equipment needed for an image to appear on a screen. In the centre, Transparency Rendering Device juxtaposes a real plant and a virtual rendering of it, asking how virtual imagery relates to reality. As viewers walk around, the boundary separating reality and image blurs. This question continues in Overlapping Landscape through repeated transformations. Goo digitally alters photographs of nature, enlarges and photographs parts of them again and repeats the process, layering the resulting forms in Diasec frames. Each preceding image becomes material for the next; with repetition, the forms move further from the original nature into unfamiliar scenes. Contemporary images likewise move away from their originals through storage, copying and reprocessing, so the work recalls the ways countless images encountered daily exist. By contrast, Overlapping Landscape: Window, beside the window at the back of the exhibition space, presents the opposite relationship. A transformed photograph of the gallery garden is made into a translucent graphic sheet and attached to the window overlooking that garden, placing altered image and original together in a single field of vision. These works reveal the image not as a result that reproduces reality, but as an ongoing process of transformation, increasing and reducing its distance from reality. Clearview Mechanism follows how a scene is made, exploring the formation of what we accept as reality. ‘Clearview’ refers to a gaze that sees clearly; ‘Mechanism’ refers to the conditions that enable it. Seeing clearly therefore also means seeing how a scene came to appear as it does. What the exhibition ultimately does not show is a completed scene. Only continuing change remains, and the viewer’s gaze, rereading what appears and how at every moment, acts as the final device that continues that change.

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