ARTIST STATEMENT

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Vanishing is a media facade work that reflects on the sixth mass extinction and human-driven biodiversity loss. The work begins from the recognition that species decline is not a distant ecological issue: it is evidence of a changing world in which the relationships that sustain life are being disrupted.

Presented on a massive LED facade in central Seoul, Vanishing unfolds as a surreal landscape populated by fossilised wings, skeletal forms, and unfamiliar moving bodies. These figures are neither documentary representations nor imagined creatures alone. They evoke lives that once occupied the Earth, as well as the fragile possibility of lives now disappearing from it. Their scale on the public screen turns absence into a presence that cannot be easily overlooked.

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The work is conceived as a tribute rather than an illustration of loss. It asks viewers to consider other species not as a backdrop to human history, but as fellow participants in a shared ecological world. Vanishing locates biodiversity within public imagination and public space, creating a moment of attention for lives that are increasingly difficult to see—and for the responsibilities that follow from their disappearance.

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