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The Seoul Museum of Art is presenting ‘AMOR EX MACHINA’, a group exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Nanji Residency SeMA. The exhibition brings together more than 60 works by 17 alumni of the residency, including Seoul-based artist Heemin Chung, and is on view at the museum’s Seosomun Main Branch through 6 September 2026.
Installed across the second- and third-floor galleries, the exhibition spans painting, photography, installation, video and sculpture. According to the museum’s presentation, the show forms part of SeMA’s 2026 curatorial theme, ‘Technology’, while treating technology not simply as a tool but as an environment and condition shaping contemporary life.
Rather than framing technology through a binary opposition between the human and the machine, ‘AMOR EX MACHINA’ considers human experience as entangled with technology, capital, media and non-human entities. The participating artists address the persistence of emotion, interpersonal connection and vulnerability within that interconnected system.
Chung’s contribution combines a new presentation of the painting ‘Arcadian Dusk’ (2019) with ‘Song of Childhood’ (2019), a video work from the Seoul Museum of Art’s collection. The pairing places her work within an exhibition that moves between different media and approaches to the relationship between technological conditions and lived experience.
Chung is also participating in ‘SONGEUN x Unboxing Project: Generative Forms’, a separate group exhibition at SONGEUN in Seoul, running from 19 August to 10 October 2026. There, she is presenting a new work as a finalist of the 22nd SONGEUN Art Award, held in 2022. That exhibition brings together 179 past winners and finalists, each creating a work from a box containing four plywood sheets measuring 25 by 25 centimetres.
At the Seoul Museum of Art, ‘AMOR EX MACHINA’ is specifically presented as a celebration of two decades of the Nanji Residency SeMA. The programme’s alumni form the exhibition’s artist group, with the works distributed through the museum’s galleries until 6 September 2026.
