Future Vibe

Literati meets digerati in the guise of Korean artist Kim Young-hun’s Diamond Mountain — Electronic Nostalgia showing at Soluna Fine Art in Hong Kong, an exhibition showcasing the artist’s vibrantly colored oil paintings inspired by the Korean landscape and digital screen glitches. Living through the analogue and digital generations, Kim observes and deciphers the unknown between the 1 and

0 of binary codes, leading him to create disoriented and euphoric paintings: inspirations such as stripe-covered lightbulbs, white noise from digital screens, and invisible vibrations from string instruments allow his works to “generate an electronic-like abstract painting language that interferes with some parts of the ambiguous boundaries of our ever-changing digital or reality lives”. As such, Kim thinks we’re looking at the world with a new pioneering perspective and what he calls a “new visual intelligence”.