“quand les fleurs nous sauvent” presents a solo show by Korean artist Junseok Mo.

Having graduated from Kookmin University in Seoul and holding a PhD from Sorbonne University since 2024, his work addresses a universal, yet ever more pressing question: how to better exist together.

Junseok Mo challenges the boundaries that divide us, by confronting us with structures highlighting the empty spaces. The meaning he gives them is inspired by the Korean word 공간 [空間, gong gan] “the space between”, and signifies for him that an empty space can only be created between two beings or two elements, the space becoming thus the bearer of our relationships with others.

His watercolor sketches on paper inspired the materialization of clay models that he transformed into sculptures of hammered and patinated wire (mainly copper) and which, by becoming “transparent”, erase the “interior-exterior” dichotomy. He sometimes embellishes them with stained glass to leave colored traces that warm the space, or to mark our human passage in his hybrid architectures.

After 2020 and the suffering caused by compulsory distancing, he deploys his work in the virtual space with digital pieces that can be experienced through augmented reality (AR) anywhere in the world, thus abolishing the limits of physical space.

It is the entirety of his creative process that the gallery intends to exhibit during this new edition of Asia Now: from the 2D sketches to the immersive AR structures, and, of course, including his metal sculptures.