Treasure Island was a project that emerged from the energies of the six artists in [collaboration + contention]. The collective consists of the artists Dongchan Kim, Seonghong Min, Mingyu Song, Jinyo Choi, Seokjun HA, and Gyunghyun Hwang. In the Treasure Island project, the artists presented how the collective with contentious plurality operates and influences individual artists, and how the artistic life as a group turns to that of an individual. Nyet! Nyet! Nyet!, shown in the Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, is a performative project that demonstrates the ways in which the “relationship” of the six artists transforms itself and the six individuals, while maintaining its informal shape.
In his painting Speed of Darkness, Mingyu Song illustrates a night scene even brighter than a scene of life at daytime. He worked based on the notion that everything re-starts in the darkness—in this sense, the work represents the genesis of the life of our times.
