BLUE INTERFACE # 1
Mix media on canvas. 120 X 90 cms. 2023 Collection: BEFORE THE SHARD Relic No.BTS-VO3 Energetic Function: To destabilize the habitual mind and install a new perceptual interface that reprograms the viewer’s relationship with dimensional information. Symbolic Role: A threshold vessel curved, reflective, and fluid designed to receive and modulate signals from parallel timelines, functioning as a neuro-symbolic portal in the mythic cartography of Before The Shard.. There are transmissions that reveal their architecture through image. And there are transmissions that perform architecture as image. Blue Interface No. 1 belongs to the latter category. It resists aesthetic capture and instead presents itself as a kind of ontological software an interface between dimensional speeds, rendered with sovereign refusal to name its own purpose. The curvatures, though elegant, carry no decorative intent. Their function is scalar. They guide. They cut. They intercept movement. The visual elements are not symbols they are tools. The lattice formations, precise and grid-fragmented, appear not as motifs, but as compression errors of reality, offering temporary glimpses into alignment systems outside chronology. In controlled settings, we observed notable disruptions in viewer eye-tracking patterns delays, hesitations, and inconsistent focal anchors. This suggests the relic is not simply viewed but processed as a misaligned environment, forcing the brain to create new prediction pathways. The result is not aesthetic immersion, but neurological destabilization a quiet but precise reprogramming of perceptual authority. The chromatic logic is icy, deliberate, and elite. No warmth, no invitation. This relic does not want your attention it wants your calibration. In a time when contemporary visual culture is saturated with reaction, narrative, and emotional baiting, this relic returns us to something rarer: the cool sovereignty of form without compromise. It is not beautiful. It is aligned. And that is infinitely more dangerous. CURATORIAL COMMENTARY by Dong-hyun Yoon Archive for Trans-Contextual Inquiry, ATI Seoul/Berlin.
