Gallery Naeil, in collaboration with Stefania Carrozzini Gallery, is pleased to present the exhibition “The Human Touch” in Seul - Opening: September 16th , 4 - 6 pm

The Human Touch

curated by Stefania Carrozzini

with the support of Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul

Milena Barberis - Rosaspina Buscarino – Stefania Carrozzini Kentaro Chiba – Akshita Gandhi – Henry Pouillon – Pia Kintrup Buyong Hwang, Caroline Hachem-Vermette, Marcello Mazzella

B2 Gallery Naeil, 3, Saemunan-ro 3-gil, Jongno-gu SEOUL - SOUTH KOREA

Opening: September 16th , 4 - 6 pm

16.09.2022 -28.09.2022 (Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 6 pm)

Gallery Naeil, in collaboration with Stefania Carrozzini Gallery, is pleased to present the exhibition “The Human Touch” in which ten artists participate: Milena Barberis (Italy) Rosaspina Buscarino (Italy) Stefania Carrozzini (Italy) Kentaro Chiba (Japan) Akshita Ghandi (India) Henry Pouillon (Belgium) Pia Kintrup (Germany) Buyong Kwang,(Korea) Caroline Hachem – Vermette (Canada) Marcello Mazzella (Italy).

The artists, through different media and techniques investigate the concept of "feeling human" passing from image of human to mutant body, from more traditional forms of expression to interactive art.

Different approaches to the theme are almost an anthropological synthesis between phantasmagoric narratives of an imaginary human story, human beings "wayfarers" perpetually in search of truth, and the body as a privileged seat for expressing transformation and prospects for becoming.

This project was born from the desire to bring to light reflections on our way of living the relationship with the artificial dimension, in every sphere and beyond any obscurantist temptation. Feeling about this is defined as "Human" in the contemporary world, between openings and limits, in an attempt to ask questions about the fate of what makes us human and about the future of art that hasn't adapted to the mainstream and the politically correct vision for too long. dominant time. Art is a magnetic field with great potential for development, where it is possible to trace that unicum that makes us so different from other species. The opening to new sensory grammars and new worlds, between the uncertainty and ambiguity of the relationship between natural and artificial life, poses the problem of the limit and use of technology, hoping that this is a means and not an end.

The human touch is the emblem of identity because it synthesizes the relational experience with the ontological meaning of human nature. From a contemporary perspective we are witnessing a metamorphosis and a reversal of values. Transhumanism offers a technical-scientific and technocratic vision that imagines the "how" we should improve. This perspective is supported by a superstitious belief in science as salvation (by axiom) and by an abstract contempt for our human nature: our frailty, our mortality, our sentience, our self-awareness, and our embodied sense of "Who" we are (distinct from "what" we are). The technical apparatus aspires to reshape human nature as an appendix to production, from subject to object, but the human being is not made only to produce and consume. Transhumanism violates the identity of nature and its ontological specificities, trusting in an anthropological engineering that has in its program the negation of the limit and the commodification of being as its aim.

So many are the questions and doubts that this exhibition wants to ask. And again: will the increasingly pervasive digitization lead to a detachment from our basic needs, which distinguish us as human beings? We are witnessing an exponential growth of technological skills, but also cognitive, ethical, behavioral and relational, as well as emotional transformations. Where human activities can be replaced by technology, the essence of humanity must be found and preserved, its incredible ability to invent and adapt, its emotional intelligence. In this sense, it is the task of art to re-establish the dialogue between human beings and changing worlds in the making.

A first edition of “The Human Touch” was presented in Venice, Italy, in May 2022 at Stefania Carrozzini Gallery, Giudecca 597.

Catalogue will be available in the gallery.

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