Shim Moonseup stresses the inherent properties of matter through the tension between various materials including paper, soil, steel plate, pipe, sand, cement and stone, which are presented as they are, with the artist’s action minimized. With the adoption of new media technology as a material for new modeling in his work in Gwangalli, Busan, he is expanding his experiments on the relations of various materials through the properties of matter to the domain of immateriality.

The artist expresses the journey of our life as if running endlessly toward an unknown point by creating dynamic scenes through a jet fountain on the sea off of Gwangalli Beach and invites the audience to the world of new creation and imagination.

Shim Moonseup’s work, installed in the middle of the waters off of Gwangalli Beach, Busan, incorporates the sea, the origin of nature and life, as both stage and material for his work. It formatively captures the contact point between nature and humans and between materiality and immateriality and at the same time embraces the ritualistic meaning of wishing for the fertility of the Sea and the well-being of Busan’s residents along with all humankind.
Park Jieun (freelance curator, Seoul and Paris)