SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2024

ARTIST: Boxbox
COUNTRY: Korea, Republic of
EMAIL: boxfacelab@gmail.com
CONTACT: www.boxfacelab.com
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1. Experiences
2014 Hongik University Department of Visual Design M.A
2016 Art Center Nabi Creative Mentoring Program for Young Professionals.
(Program for Creative Talents)
2020 AB Gallery Staff Artist. (Support Program for Perspective Staff Artists)
2024 Memory factory 1945 Staff Artist.
Private exhibitions (12 exhibitions) (AB Gallery, Jansaengpo 131 Small Museum, Cyart Gallery, Red Gallery)
Group exhibitions (53 exhibitions) (Yoonseul Gallery, Minoo Media Art Museum, Cultural Creation Center at the National Asia Culture Center, Incheon, etc.)
Art Fairs and Festivals (98 events) (Turkey, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Korea, etc.)


2. Residency
2024 Reboot : Suncheon and Memory Residency Artist.
2023 EXCHANGE-E(Co)×change Resident Artist.
2022 Suncheon NET-ZERO ART Resident Artist.
2021 Retro Bonghwang Residency – Resident Artist.
2021 UNIST Science Walden Center – Science-to-Home Science-Arts Fusion Residency.
2020 Jangsaengpo Creative Studio 131 Residency.
2018 Asia Culture Center Residency ACC_R.
2016-2017 Gangdong Recycling Art Center.

53 awards from Korean and International contest exhibitions and competitions.







3. Author’s Note

1-1. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-2. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-3. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

1-4. The Heart Box
Facing the world through an objet called a ‘box’.
Instead of a world full of contradictions and issues, I aim to project, and communicate ideas about, an ideal world onto an objet called a ‘box’. The space in the box provides room for an ideal world, and it is this space that contains the thoughts I want to convey.
I aim to outline the ideal world through the mind contained in space.

1-5. Containing place
I would like to discuss an ideal place with the theme of 'place' being erased and created by humans.
I gain inspiration from places where human life has accumulated to create place-specific art.
The purpose of creating the place-specific art is to view place as a space of human desire and a space of life.
Place-specific art is created in two forms.
The first creates art, based on archived materials such as ‘photos, text, and video’, in an organized form that can be replicated.
The second form embodies one’s own emotions that cannot be replicated. The materials of the realized work are thus unlimited.
I raise the topic through these two types of place-specific art.

“Is it right for us to create capital from the traces of time and erase them for human desires?”

Kino friends 01

Kino friends / Digital drawing / 60×60Cm /2024

1-1. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-2. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-3. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Kino friends 02

Kino friends / Digital drawing / 90×26Cm /2023

1-1. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-2. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-3. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Kino friends 03

Kino friends / Digital drawing / 60×60Cm /2024

1-1. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-2. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-3. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Cloud Boy

Cloud boy / Digital drawing / 44×21Cm /2024

1-1. Using clouds Clooud boy can make whatever they want.
Through the cloud friends they create, Cloud boy
makes beautiful skies and try to deliver warm hearts to people.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Dream cloud

Dream cloud / Digital drawing / 44×21Cm /2024

1-1. Using clouds Clooud boy can make whatever they want.
Through the cloud friends they create, Cloud boy
makes beautiful skies and try to deliver warm hearts to people.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Cloud boy & Cloud friends

Cloud boy & Cloud friends / Digital drawing / 155×115Cm /2024

1-1. Using clouds Clooud boy can make whatever they want.
Through the cloud friends they create, Cloud boy
makes beautiful skies and try to deliver warm hearts to people.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Cloud boy & Rainbow whale

Dream cloud / Digital drawing / 44×21Cm /2024

1-1. Using clouds Clooud boy can make whatever they want.
Through the cloud friends they create, Cloud boy
makes beautiful skies and try to deliver warm hearts to people.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Nikki & Momo

Nikki & Momo / Digital drawing / 64×34Cm /2024

1-1. Nikki and Momo
This is a coming-of-age story of a child named Nikki who likes mice and a white mouse who makes the mysterious cheese that makes a body grow. Through the picture book of “Nikki and Momo,” this story aims to deliver the message that becoming an adult is not just about the physical body but also the mind of the person.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Huge cheese

Huge cheese / Digital drawing / 64×34Cm /2024

1-1. Nikki and Momo
This is a coming-of-age story of a child named Nikki who likes mice and a white mouse who makes the mysterious cheese that makes a body grow. Through the picture book of “Nikki and Momo,” this story aims to deliver the message that becoming an adult is not just about the physical body but also the mind of the person.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.

Momo and Forest friends

Momo and Forest friends / Digital drawing / 64×34Cm /2024

1-1. Nikki and Momo
This is a coming-of-age story of a child named Nikki who likes mice and a white mouse who makes the mysterious cheese that makes a body grow. Through the picture book of “Nikki and Momo,” this story aims to deliver the message that becoming an adult is not just about the physical body but also the mind of the person.

1-2. Ideal World
I aimed to discuss an ideal world by guilelessly assimilating with the objet.
Objets of a place bear traces of human desire. I archive these objets in an organized form that can be copied. Based on archived materials, a ‘new story’ is created and embodied in a shape that captures the sense of place.
The world of a ‘New Story’ is a virtual world that reflects reality. I seek to visualize an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto that world.

1-3. Kino and Friends
Kino and friends are virtual characters created to communicate the ideal world.
Because they were created to discuss an ideal world by projecting the contradictions and issues of the real world onto the inner world, they are embodied in the form of infants whose identity is in flux.

1-4. Dancing Light Showers
Drawing numerous invisible, living rays of light.
Although they are invisible to the naked eye, numerous microorganisms exist around us.
I aim to communicate an ideal world by expressing the dynamic moments of living rays of light along with microorganisms.