ARTIST STATEMENT

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Created in 2022, 0.4(Zerofour) takes its title from the narrow margin between a recorded rise in global temperature and the 1.5°C threshold widely associated with escalating climate risk. The work was created at a moment when this difference could appear almost negligible, yet it carried profound consequences for ecosystems, and the future conditions of human life.

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Presented on the monumental outdoor facade in central Seoul, the moving-image work transforms this numerical interval into an embodied public encounter. Images of natural forces and uncertain landscapes unfold across the screen before giving way to warming stripes: a visual language that condenses long-term temperature change into a field of colour. The scale of the facade places a planetary measurement within the everyday flow of the city.

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Rather than offering a simple solution, the work makes the threshold felt—inviting viewers to consider climate action as a shared practice of care for the biosphere that includes, but extends beyond, humanity.

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[1] Warming stripes are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray long-term temperature trends. It is originally published by the climatologist Ed Hawkins.

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