Exhibition｜DRIFT

▎DRIFT

Artists’ Project Exhibition

DRIFT is explored through the work of three artists, each engaging the concept of drifting from a distinct perspective. The exhibition moves beyond fixed centers and predetermined hierarchies, tracing fluid movements and intersecting trajectories through which new modes of perception and narration emerge. Here, drifting is framed not as uncertainty, but as a generative condition, an opening toward transition, expansion, and renewal.

Lee Wan examines how social systems and institutional frameworks operate upon the individual. His installations, sculptures, and paintings reconfigure familiar symbols and consumer objects as instruments of transformation. Through these altered forms, he reveals the tensions and contradictions embedded within collective structures, redefining the everyday as a site where latent conditions surface and acquire new significance.

Seahee Chang considers how climate change and environmental shifts affect the rhythms of human existence. Her video installations register unstable flows and unpredictable transitions, giving form to the dynamic interplay between human and nonhuman agents. In her work,drifting emerges not as a marker of crisis, but as a process in which coexistence and potential converge.

Jungwon Phee investigates how emotions and memories are abstracted into forms that drift and reverberate. For this exhibition, his practice extends into installation, where layers of affect unfold across space and time. The viewer moves between states of reality and memory, the personal and the collective, encountering an expanded field of emotional resonance. DRIFT positions drifting as constructive rather than dissolutive, an active process of renewal rather than a sign of loss. Within these transitional states, new sensibilities and relations emerge, offering another language through which to reflect upon the conditions of the present.

▎Artist

LEE WAN

Lee Wan (b.1979) studied Sculpture at Dongguk University and earned a Master’s degree in Media Art from the same university’s Graduate School of Film and Digital Media. His work explores the impact and inevitable influences that globalization and capitalist systems have on individual lives, through various media including sculpture, installation, and video documentary. By capturing the intersection between vast socio-political structures and personal narratives, Lee offers a critical perspective while prompting viewers to reflect on the essence of human existence. Since being selected as the representative artist for the Korean Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, he has gained sustained attention both at home and abroad, steadily expanding the reach of his artistic practice.

Instagram: @leewanstudio

▎Artist

SEAHEE CHANG

Seahee Chang (b. 1988), based in Seoul, Korea is a media artist whose practice investigates the intersection of movement, bodily perception, nature, climate, technology, and the human inner world. Her early experience in dance cultivated an embodied language of motion, which later evolved into her primary artistic medium across video, hardware-based works, and installation. Her practice unfolds through diverse formats, including art films, interdisciplinary performances, and brand collaborations. Her fluid approach freely crosses the boundaries between genres and media.

Her 〈The Climate World〉 is a surreal and visual exploration of the boundaries between the human and the natural, the artificial and the immaterial, the sensory and the supra-sensory. Comprising chapters such as Time, Sensing, and Language of Senses, the series transcends the human-centered framework of vision to explore moments when the world reveals itself. Through the visual and auditory transformation of climatic elements such as wind, light, water, and particles, the artist visualizes the invisible flows of nature using AI systems and data-driven algorithms. In the 〈Veil of Breath〉 series, Chang isolates and expands the life-forms inherent within the climatic world, visualizing states of life and existence prior to sensory recognition. Treating these forms as organic remnants or “fossils” shaped by the climate itself, her process functions as a poetic record of pre- sensory life. Through this ongoing exploration, the artist redefines humanity’s relationship with nature and delves into the very origins of existence.

Instagram:@loveplaychill

▎Artist

JUNGWON PHEE

Jungwon Phee (b. 1993), based in Seoul, Korea is acclaimed for his nuanced exploration of self and the outsider experience through his art. Having resided in Canada and the U.S., Phee’s artistic narrative traces his personal evolution, utilizing black backgrounds as a symbolic canvas representing his journey from childhood. He seamlessly blends Eastern and Western artistic traditions, incorporating Eastern ink symbolism and Western black

gesso, a reflection of his extensive travels and nomadic lifestyle.

On top of the black surface, figures such as squares and strips sometimes appear, shaping the artist’s memories and experiences reborn in space and time by his current consciousness and inspiration. The bends and layers that appear in these materials are imperfections, like cracks, and the artist constantly adds layers of paint to complement them. This repetitive process is also the artist’s visual practice to bring his unconscious to completeness.

Phee’s abstract approach beckons viewers into a dialogue with his creations, inviting them to infuse their own interpretations onto his canvases. His work embodies a dynamic interplay between individual experience and collective understanding, revered for its profound depth and universal appeal. Recognized domestically and internationally, Phee’s art offers a distinctive expression and insightful examination of individual consciousness.

Instagram:@artist_p

▎Present by

THE THIRD GALLERY

Founded in August 2025 in Seoul, THE THIRD is a contemporary art gallery that centers on conceptual practices engaging with the fundamental questions of our time. The gallery positions itself as a platform where critical discourse and experiential perception intersect.

Art is never complete through the artist and the space alone. It requires an intermediary dimension that generates new layers of interpretation. THE THIRD focuses on this threshold, where the gaze encounters the work, where dialogues traverse contexts, and where resonance continues beyond the moment, offering experiences that deepen perception and reflection.

THE THIRD operates not merely as a venue for exhibitions, but as a point where perspectives converge and cognition expands. Through a refined visual language, the gallery develops its programs in collaboration with artists who critically engage with the language of contemporary art. In doing so, THE THIRD seeks to move beyond passive contemplation, expanding the field of perception and shaping the discourse of art.

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