Goyang Children's Museum Opens Art Playground Special Exhibition 'Upside-Down World'

Offering a Fresh Artistic Experience Through Works That Transform the Nature of Objects
Starting Pilot Operation on the 1st of Next Month, to Run for 1 Year and 8 Months

2024 Goyang Children's Museum Special Exhibition 'The Reversed World' Promotional Text.

The Goyang Children's Museum, under the jurisdiction of Goyang Special City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Dong-hwan), announced on the 29th that it will present an art experience exhibition titled "Upside-Down World" for children and families at the 3rd-floor Art Playground exhibition hall this November.

Since its opening, the Goyang Children's Museum has held various special exhibitions such as "A Joyful Day, Today!", "Discovery of Sound," and "Nana Astro Goyang: Star Journey," allowing children to experience art easily and enjoyably.

The fourth special exhibition, "Upside-Down World," continues this tradition, starting from the imagination of "What if we change the properties of objects differently?" and offers a new art experience through collaboration with four contemporary artists.

This exhibition, composed of works by each team that unfamiliarly transform the inherent properties of objects, includes six sections: ▲ "The Inverted Room," where the room is flipped upside down ▲ "Weeing Weeing Plant Garden," combining machines and plants ▲ "Floating Cloud World," where the sky and ground are reversed ▲ "Soft and Hard Tactile Playground," a space for new desserts ▲ AI (Artificial Intelligence) digital experience "Jumbled Shape Control Room" ▲ and a free creative space "Curly Imagination Lab."

Artists Kim Hae-in, Noh Dong-sik, So Soo-bin, and DOA (Jang Jin-yeon, Lee Jin-hyung) showcase works tailored to children's perspectives and emotions through this exhibition. ▲ Artist Kim Hae-in presents media works created by merging analog and digital technologies.

Inspired by Gaba (a traditional Korean educational toy), this work uses computer AI technology to realize children's imaginations, composed of various shapes, in a unique way. Artist Noh Dong-sik offers a warm space for children and families through works that evoke memories in everyone's hearts using cotton. Visitors can enter a cotton cloud room shaped like animals that children would love. Artist So Soo-bin contemplates the harmonious life of technology and nature by observing the changing nature due to technological advances. Through acrylic plants that respond to breath or movement of participants, visitors can explore human behaviors affecting nature. The DOA team (Jang Jin-yeon, Lee Jin-hyung) uses various materials such as sponge, fabric, and silicone to transform the properties of desserts most loved by children. Although inedible, this new dessert space invites visitors to experience fascinating textures just by touching.

A representative of the Goyang Children's Museum said, "We are pleased to hold the fourth special exhibition at the Art Playground since the museum's opening," adding, "This exhibition hopes to be a time to discover various perspectives hidden within ourselves through the experience that if we discard the prejudice of 'the original,' even the same object can look different, and even the same world can appear new."

The museum plans to start a pilot operation on November 1, hold an opening ceremony on November 8, and run the exhibition until June 30, 2026.

For inquiries related to the exhibition, please contact the Goyang Children's Museum.

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