Artistic Experiments
Art Project 6
Minseok Kang's installation work begins with visualizing the relationships of attraction and repulsion that arise between humans and objects, and between objects and space. Through the competing forms of cars controlled by human hands, he reveals states in which invisible forces collide and intersect. This space is not conceived as a simple physical site, but as a field saturated with countless energies. Human breathing, the sound of acceleration, the roar of car engines, and the incessant noises of the city together construct a virtual space that intensifies sensory density. The artist first materializes the sense of dissonance between reality and virtuality through VR, then brings that experience back into physical space. In this ambiguous zone—neither entirely virtual nor fully real—the VR environment allows exploration of sculptural forms imbued with distinct energies and sounds. AR functions as a mirror through which this virtual space can be observed. Infinitely repeated sculptural images traverse the space at random, producing a sense of speed that erases form as it moves. Through this process, form remains unstable and continuously dissolves, while the boundary between virtual and real becomes increasingly blurred. The car functions as the artist's alter ego—a shadow of his inner self. A powerful desire to move forward, along with endless self-competition, generates bursts of color and energy that permeate the work. Kang's installation expands these internal energies and sensations of speed across the entire space, guiding viewers to experience invisible force at the threshold between reality and virtuality.