Thousand Lives
February 23 — April 13, 2024
Seoul
What if an artwork could integrate you into its dream?
What if the endgame of art is art that adapts to you?
The exhibition features two works that extend a personalized experience of its world to you. and adapt to your attention in return.
Life After BOB: The Chalice Study Experience (LABX), 2021-2022, is a 50-minute anime built in the Unity video game engine and presented in real-time. It centers on the life of Chalice, the first child to grow up with an AI symbiote called BOB. Unlike typical cinematic productions, LABX was conceived and built as a simulated world, populated by characters and artifacts with rich lore beyond the story. LABX features “worldwatching” mode, an intuitive way for you to pause the cinematic story and freely explore every detail of the LAB world and its many secrets.
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© Ian Cheng
Ian Cheng (b. 1984, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. Previous solo exhibitions include: Worlding, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Life After BOB, Light Art Space, Berlin, Germany (2022); Life After BOB, The Shed, New York, US (2021); Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland (2021); Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, Luma Arles, Arles, France (2021); Emissary Trilogy, Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid (2020); Emissary Forks at Perfection, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, Venice (2018);* Ian Cheng Emissaries*, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2018); Ian Cheng, Serpentine Gallery, London (2018);* Emissaries*, MoMA PS1, New York (2017); Forking at Perfection, Migros Museum, Zurich (2016); Emissary in the Squat of Gods, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2015). Previous group exhibitions include: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2023); Beijing Biennial, Bejing (2022); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düssel-dorf, Germany (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022); Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2022); Kadist x G Museum, Nanjing, China (2021); M+, Hong Kong (2021); Luma, Arles (2020); De Young, Fine Art Museum of San Francisco (2020); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); Venice Biennale (2019); MoMA, New York (2019); MAXXI, Rome (2018).
