Transits of Senses
Link: https://whiteblock.org/%EC%A0%84%EC%8B%9C/view/5782116
Art Center White Block, in collaboration with the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, presents the Gyeonggi Visual Arts Achievement Exhibition 2025, The Breath of Fresh: Transits of Senses. This year, eighteen artists were selected through the Foundation’s Visual Arts Creation Support Program, and their new works are showcased across two venues: Art Center White Block (Paju) and Art space Gwanggyo(Suwon). At White Block, nine participating artists explore how different modes of sensing and perceptual attitudes can recover and reconfigure “disappearing senses.”
We live in a time when overflowing information and accelerated change take the place of direct sensory experience. Contemporary media and AI technologies deliver vast amounts of information with unprecedented speed, while the sensations that were once grounded in lived experience increasingly fade. Seasonal changes, once perceived through the smell of the air, the angle of sunlight, or the tone of leaves, are now registered through numerical averages and data feeds. As numbers become more familiar than the body’s perception, the senses are pushed to the outer margins of reality.
Human beings once understood the world through the act of sensing. Within slowness and incompleteness, the time of the senses breathed together with the world. But today’s world rarely waits for sensory perception. The speed of change outpaces the rhythm of the senses, leaving them unable to fully converge with the world—or with the self. When the world is grasped only as information, our relation to it shifts: we become analysts rather than dwellers. Sensory ties loosen, and experience grows increasingly superficial.
The Breath of Fresh: Transits of Senses begins from this concern. Senses do not simply disappear; rather, they re-emerge in different forms through images, language, bodily gestures, and artistic acts. This exhibition searches within the gaps of disconnection for ways to “feel the world again,” examining how lost or muted sensations may return through artistic practice. The participating artists trace the lingering resonance of such disappearing senses, restoring, through the language of art, the unseen textures of time, forgotten temperatures, and subtle vibrations and rhythms.
We understand the world, yet we do not fully feel it. Transits of Senses is not a place that mourns the disappearance of the senses, but one that creates conditions for them to shift and be repositioned in different forms. It slows down the speed of images and invites time to linger along the changes of light and surface. The viewer receives the world through the body—by walking, passing through, sitting, and looking. Just as 生 transforms into 化, the senses do not vanish; they return to us through a passage from explanation to experience, from the eye to the skin, from data to the body.
Art Center White Block Curator | Chang Minhyun
Date : Dec. 6, 2025-Feb.22, 2026
Time : 11:00 – 18:30
Venue : Art Center White Block
Supported by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
Organized by Art Center White Block