The second chapter of UC-98 gets deeper into the concepts of liquidity and fluidity developed by Zygmunt Bauman and Walter Benjamin while exploring the city of Seoul. The series of paintings with screens UC-98 Soft & flat (Seoul) tries a new mythology of a city that is the capital of high tech conglomerates as well as the historical commercial hub of sea products.

In front of abstract paintings, flat screens plays videos of the stalls of Noryangjin fish market where the trade of raw material led to capitalist values. The abstract script of UC-98 continues through the images and surfaces of Seoul.

01 & 02/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #1 (2016)
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 48’’ flat screen, wall mount, 4’49’’ HD Video, colored electric wire,
176 x 210 x 10 cm
Image Seoul Museum of Art / Sangtae Kim, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

03/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #2, #4 and #3 (2016), exhibition view
Image Seoul Museum of Art / Sangtae Kim, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

04/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #1 (2016), detail view
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 48’’ flat screen, wall mount, 4’49’’ HD Video, colored electric wire,
176 x 210 x 10 cm
Image Seoul Museum of Art / Sangtae Kim, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

05, 06 et 07/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #1 (2016), video still
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 48’’ flat screen, wall mount, 4’49’’ HD Video, colored electric wire,
176 x 210 x 10 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

08/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #2 (2016)
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
Image Seoul Museum of Art / Sangtae Kim, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

09/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #3 (2016)
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
Image Seoul Museum of Art / Sangtae Kim, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

10/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #4 (2016), detail view
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 48’’ flat screen, wall mount, 4’47’’ HD Video, colored electric wire,
176 x 200 x 10 cm
Image Seoul Museum of Art / Sangtae Kim, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

11 & 12/12 - UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #4 (2016), video still
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame, 48’’ flat screen, wall mount, 4’47’’ HD Video, colored electric wire,
176 x 200 x 10 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016