Seo Young Chang

Seo Young Chang, Infinity Pool, single channel video, 8min, color, sound, English (English and Korean subtitles), 2020   

Infinity Pool is an emulated version of the ocean, without any smell, taste, and texture. It reflects the era in which physical contact becomes extinct and hence the tactile sensation is substituted by the visual. Newly created sirens in the infinity pool lure the viewers to drift infinitely on the surface, instead of letting them collide into rocks. Like an infinite sequence with a limit only converging to a certain number without actually reaching it, the viewers don’t meet or grab anything but only get close to something infinitely. 

Seo Young Chang explores flexible temporality and spatiality due to the variable bodily presence. Her recent focus is on non-standard time that is experienced through an ill, aged, and malfunctioning body. She works mainly with video and in 3-dimensional works. She has presented solo exhibitions beginning to end at the beginning (Doosan Gallery Seoul, 2019) and Off (Doosan Gallery New York, 2019), and has participated in group exhibitions such as Young Korean Artists 2019: Liquid Glass Sea (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, 2019).