Mikael Hwang

Artist's Description
Drawing on Bruno Latour’s Laboratory Life and Lisa H. Stenmark’s idea of glass as “epistemic containment”—which renders life visible yet artificially constrained—we filmed the artwork’s full life cycle, capturing 32,564 images over 16 days. This timelapse was edited into a 16-minute video, compressing the living LP’s entire span into a sterile, replayable visual record tailored for the exhibition. By presenting this video across the exhibition’s full four-month run, we suspended the yeast’s existence within an anthropocentric timeframe: life made observable and enduring, yet distanced, for the needs of the viewer and institution.

Curator's Description
Glass permeates the fabric of our daily lives, from domestic interiors to vehicles and digital devices, yet its material significance extends far beyond the familiar. Klein Club takes glass as its central metaphor, exploring its paradoxical nature as both intimate and distant, situated in the fluid space between expansion and contraction, presence and absence. Inspired by the "Klein Bottle," a mathematical form that dissolves the distinction between inside and outside, the exhibition foregrounds glass as a dynamic, boundary-defying medium.

This text features artists PARK Jungun, Lee Jian, CHOE Nowk, CHOI Jangwon, and Psients and Jeffrey Jehwan Kim, each offering a distinctive interpretation of the exhibition’s central theme of glass. Other artists who participated in the exhibition have been omitted here to focus on the selected work.

Within this conceptual framework, artists Psients and Jeffrey Jehwan Kim present a compelling collaboration at the intersection of microbiology and sound. Their work employs glass both as a physical conduit and a symbolic lens, translating the subtle movements of yeast cells into evocative audio compositions. In doing so, they invite us to encounter life at a microscopic scale through a multisensory experience that bridges the organic and the inorganic.

Klein Club thus proposes glass as a site of continual reflection and transformation: a mise en abyme of endless recursion and profound interconnectedness. Visitors are invited to contemplate the role of glass in shaping perception and experience, and to consider the ways in which everyday boundaries—material, conceptual, and sensory—are continually dissolved and reimagined.