The Sensation of Epidermis exhibition by SungHong Min (b.1972) focuses on the responses, especially the anxiety people feel when the surroundings inevitably change in their daily life, due to the social system and how they recognize it. SunhHong Min dismantles and reconstructs abandoned objects, which lost their original purposes after people left their residences, to create variable structures and installations. The artist expresses tactilely the movement when an individual confronts environment changes by adding a thin film, like fabric, to the structure where large and small objects are combined.

The selection cover Min’s journey of studies, reaching his latest series, Skin Layer, coincident with keywords such as “atypical”, “variability”, and “adaptation attitude”. Drift Atypical Form is a printed fabric which reminds old and imitated landscapes from the walls of old apartments. These ambiguous landscapes became another form of land for Min. He re-combines fragments from the landscape paintings, prints them on tent fabric, and turns them into something similar to the floating topography and camouflage net.

Adaptation attitude, Camouflage net is considered the starting point of the Skin Layer serie. The artist wore the tent fabric himself in the photograph, which implies the artist’s attitude as to how to respond to external influences. Skin Layer, the informal structures with chairs, furniture legs, and hangers, has wheels that can make them move. This possibility of movement represents the moment we confront objects while walking in a city. Those sculptural installations tend to show how we respond to changes in life and the necessity of adaptation.

Originally from South Korea, Sunghong Min lives and works in Seoul. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting from the Chu-Gye University for the Arts (Seoul, South Korea) and is the holder of an MA of Fine Arts, Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA, USA).