Written by Joon Moon

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(the exhibition,) “Beyond Your Eyes, Somewhere In Between,” is elegant, alluring, and ingeniously engaging in one case.

That highlight is one of six video-based works. Titled Augmented Shadow – Outside (2020), it features a rectangular table, with short walls on two edges, that holds a skeletal frame of a house. Projected from above onto those surfaces, a video shows ghostly black silhouettes of tall men with bright eyes walking through various rooms. All the while, similarly rendered children scramble about, leaving now and then through a door that clicks closed. Dishes and glasses clink, too, and watching this feels a bit like eavesdropping. A fearsome wolf stands to one side of the home, seemingly ready to pounce, below a chilly blue moon.

This is satisfying enough, but the secret of the piece is a lantern the size of a large coffee mug that sits on a pedestal just beyond the table. It seems to be casting light onto the world. Pick it up, though, and steer it around the domestic environment, and it shifts the projections in real-time so that you can catch glimpses of other people (like a respectable-looking fellow in a shirt and tie), as well as the action in neighboring houses.

A land that seemed threatening and haunted from that original angle turns out to be a great deal more welcoming—or at least more complicated and layered as hidden vantage points are revealed.

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A closeup of a version of Augmented Shadow – Outside (2019) by Moon Joon-yong.Moon Joon-yong