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Kim Hanyoung Joins the Group Exhibition We, Such Fragile Beings

The artist Kim Hanyoung takes part in We, Such Fragile Beings (《우리 이토록 작은 존재들》), a group exhibition bringing together the work of thirteen artists. Unfolding over the course of a full year, the exhibition reflects on the smallness and fragility of human existence within the vastness of the universe — and on the quiet possibilities of connection that emerge within it.The exhibition takes its starting point from a single image: the photograph transmitted by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from 6.4 billion kilometers away, in which Earth appeared as a pale blue dot, no larger than a speck of dust caught in sunlight. Upon that small point, human beings are born, love, struggle, and eventually disappear. The exhibition gathers thirteen artists who, each in their own register, ask what art can illuminate when we stand before the fragility we share.Kim Hanyoung's practice — shaped by long, attentive observation of nature and the slow passage of time across landscape — resonates closely with the exhibition's premise. Working exclusively with oil paint, he carries forward, in his own language, the working spirit of the Renaissance masters. On his canvases, the air of dusk and the quiet emotion of fading hours accumulate slowly, layer upon layer. Beneath what appears to be a single tone, multiple layers of color are released in stillness, evoking at once the smallness of human presence and the immense expanse of time that surrounds it."Even when ginkgo leaves turn yellow," the artist remarks, "no two of them share the same color." His attention to the singularity hidden within what seems insignificant aligns naturally with the exhibition's intention — to consider, in its own words, how individual beings can come to mirror and console one another, "as small stars gather to form a galaxy within the vast universe."We, Such Fragile Beings runs from August 9, 2025 through August 8, 2026, offering, over the course of a year, a space in which traces of vanishing things and the quiet residues of daily life invite viewers to look once more at where they themselves stand.