■ Exhibition

The Radiant City, Dark Rapture―Dystopic Images of the Modern City is the exhibition curated by Hyewon Lee, selected for the [Emerging Artists & Curators 2024]. The exhibition looks into the dystopic representations of Seoul(South Korea) and Pyongyang(North Korea) and especially how they are invoked as “cyberpunk dystopias” within journalism, video games, and online communities. Through this, the exhibition explores the process by which places are produced and distributed as images. It aims to reconsider the interrelationship between the dystopian representations of the cities and their images, experiment the cognitive expansion as an alternative to the outlook of reality, and furthermore imagine the construction of a new image in our form of life.

■ Hyewon Lee

Hyewon Lee is a curator, researcher, and a publisher based in Seoul, managing ORCABOOKS. Her recent interest is in the conflict, rupture, sharp drop, and gap between those socio-culturally regarded as normal and those not, the sacred ones and the vulgar ones, the dark ones and the bright ones in specific location and time. In particular, she is interested in Seoul. Her representative exhibitions and projects include: MMCA Performing Arts 2024 Space Elevator October Program (MMCA Seoul, 2024), AmadoLab 24’ Before Monsoon: Noir Urbanisms (Amado Art Space, 2024), and MODERN GROTESQUE TIMES (space xx, 2021). Her publications include: Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City(2024), and Monstrosity: Human Monsters in Visual Culture(2021).