SEONGMIN YOO: PULSES OF EXPERIENCE, EXPLORING THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FLIGHT OR FIGHT
Pulses of Experience functions as a metaphor for contemporary life. It reflects the realities that so many people and communities face in constantly being in the attentive immobility state. The artist addresses the violence of consistent tensions between movement and the absolute stillness that is emblematic of this physiological state. The flickers of consciousness that persist in these moments contain fear, awareness, and endurance, and they all coexist in a single suspended instant. Yoo’s practice questions “the boundaries of self... determining where personhood and identity begin and end, asking fundamental questions about belonging and purpose.” In this exhibition, attentive immobility emerges as both a psychological state and a shared cultural condition.
