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The participant stands in front of the installation and presses a button ; AI scans them and instantly generates key national symbols (a flag, a poetic constitution, and a national anthem).
Your Free Nation—Pocket-Sized Nationalism
2023 Lily of the Valley
2025 Welcoming
Cangji Series
AI system, lug carpet, boxes with screen, receipt printer 200 × 200 × 200 cm
Mixed media 60 × 40 cm
Brass 29 × 22 × 14 cm
Ink on paper Each 69 × 69 cm
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2025
Yujin Ok
Yulong Peng
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Yujin Ok is an artist based in Seoul and London whose metalwork investigates themes of connection, protection, and transformation. Rooted in craft and material exploration, OK’s practice often draws from overlooked elements of nature, particularly fallen tree bark, recasting them into delicate yet resilient sculptural forms. OK’s practice builds a visual language bridging materiality and emotion, reflecting on the interdependence between materials, environments, and viewers. tension to that openness, introducing unexpected sharpness. This contradiction reflects the complexity of human relationships; people long for connection and comfort, yet the same relationships can wound even as they hold. The work emphasises this fragile balance, inviting reflection on how intimacy combines warmth with potential pain. Welcoming opens wide, like arms outstretched to greet the outside. The jagged edges of the cast bark bring
Yulong Peng’s practice centres on three series: Innovation of Tradition , Blank-Focused , and Cangji . The Cangji Series transforms Chinese characters into abstract visual forms, using them as archetypal structures to create rhythmic symbols. This approach disrupts legibility and foregrounds the formal beauty of character-based aesthetics. The Cangji Series draws from traditional Chinese philosophical aesthetics, using the dot, line and plane of contemporary Chinese characters as formal elements. Rooted in abstract spatial construction, the work constructs symbolic images that reflect a cyclical understanding of existence. Within this repeated flow, the series evokes a sense of past and present intertwined, echoing the concept of recurrence as the origin of the world itself.
Yuchen Lu is an artist based in New York. Drawing inspiration from nature, mythologies, fairytales, and dreams, Lu develops works rooted in fantasy. Lu’s practice begins with hand-drawn ink details and is completed with digital techniques, producing a contemporary mixed-media style that blends traditional drawing with modern processes. Lily of the Valley draws inspiration from a Confucian Chinese proverb ‘Born in a secluded valley but the flower does not withhold its fragrance for lack of an audience’. Like the lily of the valley, delicate yet resilient, this work reflects the quiet strength of remaining true to one’s essence in solitude. Lily of the Valley is a meditation on inner integrity, self-worth, and the quiet power of beauty that flourishes regardless of recognition.
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Yoyojin’s practice explores the relationship between image and peace, as well as the meaning of individual existence within politically complex social systems. Working across illustration, animation, AI, sound and live painting performance, he engages with multilayered contemporary issues through a strong sense of empathy. Your Free Nation—Pocket-Sized Nationalism is an AI-powered interactive installation where multiple AI models generate a personalized nation for each participant.
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