Doosan Humanities Theater is a site of exchange for scientific, artistic and multidisciplinary exploration into human and nature. Doosan Humanities Theater has been held every year since 2013, starting with the Big History: From Big Bang to Big Data, to The Age of Distrust in 2014 and Exception, Mutation, or Abnormality on the Borders in 2015. For three months from March to June, the program invites scholars from Sciences and Humanities fields, conducting subject-related lectures, exhibitions and screenings.

Doosan Humanities Theater 2015: Using the Eye in Order to See focuses on the individual’s hidden sides that are not revealed easily in everyday circumstances. As an individual, one confronts others in various relationships in ways that suit them. The self, seen by others, however, is only just a fraction that becomes visible in a certain social regulation or circumstance, and it is something that changes in other situations.

Because we’re interwoven in multiple networks of various relationships, it’s not easy to see one’s true self in everyday and ordinary settings. In uncommon or extraordinary situations, however, we come to reflect on things that we have always overlooked as being so ordinary, and thus come to discover our hidden internal selves. Using the Eye in Order to See reflects on such elements that we have always deemed as being ordinary, and focuses on the other side of a self instead of an individual that’s recognized within the socially constructed frameworks.

In the exhibition, architect Seohong Min transforms the entire exhibition space into a new space of experience. In addition, the audience comes to see works by Dongi Lee and KyungRyul Park through the circular structure in the space constructed by fabric. The limited view in the circular structure invites the viewer to focus on the distinctiveness of each work by the two artists, charged with each artist’s uniqueness that lies in his or her unconsciousness. Meanwhile, dividing the exhibition space in two, Jaeuk Jung’s plaster sculpture is extremely thin that it can only maintain its form temporarily. The work, made for an indefinite period of time, is shattered as time passes until only the remaining powder hints at its existence. Finally, Min Jeong Koo brings together drawings and objects from various images discovered in everyday life, portraying how she herself responds to space.

Jaeuk Jung (b. 1980) graduated from Seoul National University with B.F.A. in Sculpture, and from Academy of Fine Arts of Brera with M.F.A. in Sculpture. He showed his work in solo exhibition at Dukwon Gallery (2010, Seoul, Korea), and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Space 15th (2011, Seoul, Korea), Nanji Gallery (2011, Seoul, Korea), 91mQ at project space (2010, Berlin, Germany), Ciocca Arte Contemporanea (2010, Milano, Italy), Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta (2008, Lainate, Italy), and C. Arte 2008 (2008, Macerata, Italy), etc.

Min Jeong Koo (b. 1987) received her B.F.A. in Painting from Sungshin Women’s University and her M.F.A. from Seoul National University of Science and Technology. Koo has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at Daehakro Arts Theater Project Space Stage3x3 (2014, Seoul, Korea), CAFE MORRIS (2014, Seoul, Korea), Seoul Art Space Seogyo (2014, Seoul, Korea), and has participated in various group exhibitions, including at KT&G SangsangMadang Gallery (2015, Seoul, Korea), Culture Archive Bomm (2014, Seoul, Korea), space WILLING N DEALING (2013, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Lounge BE-HIVE (2012, Seoul, Korea), and KunstDoc Gallery (2011, Seoul, Korea), etc.

Dongi Lee (b. 1967) received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Painting from Hongik University. He has held solo exhibitions at Gallery Hyundai (2014, Seoul, Korea), SONG WON ART CENTER (2013, Seoul, Korea), Gallery 2 (2010, Seoul, Korea), Galerie Michael Schultz (2009, Berlin, Germany), and Willem Kerseboom Gallery (2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands), and has also participated in many group exhibitions, including at PLATEAU (2014, Seoul, Korea), Culture Station Seoul 284 (2013, Seoul, Korea), Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art (2012, Taichung, Taiwan), Hakgojae (2012, Seoul, Korea), and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon (2010, Gwacheon, Korea), etc.

Seohong Min (b. 1977) received his B.S. in Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University in Korea, MArch in Architecture at University of California at Berkeley, and MSAUD in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University in New York City. Min has worked at Kim Architects in Korea and SOM in USA, and is currently the owner and director of MINIMAX Architects and adjunct professor in the Department of Architecture at Hongik University in Korea. Min has worked on various projects including My Friend’s House at Topohaus (2014, Seoul, Korea), collaborations with Donghee Koo, the recipient of ‘Korea Artist Prize’ at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2014, Gwacheon, Korea), Bongeunsa-ro Business Facility (2014, Seoul, Korea) Maria Santangelo Boutique (2013, Seoul, Korea), Silvano Lattanzi Boutique (2013, Seoul, Korea), and Y House (2012, Pyeongtaek, Korea).

KyungRyul Park (b. 1979) graduated from the Department of Painting with a B.F.A. and M.F.A. at Hongik University. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions at COMMON CENTER (2014, Seoul, Korea), space WILLING N DEALING (2013, Seoul, Korea), Salon de H (2011, Seoul, Korea), and loft-H Cheongdam (2009, Seoul, Korea). Park has also participated in many group exhibitions, including at Zaha Museum(2015, Seoul, Korea), space K Daegu(2014, Daegu, Korea)  Alternative Space Hue (2013, Paju, Korea), Gallery White Block (2013, Paju, Korea), Gallery Hyundai (2012, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Zandari (2012, Seoul, Korea), Seongbuk Museum of Art (2011, Seoul, Korea), Saatchi Gallery (2010, London, U.K.), and PKM Gallery (2009, Seoul, Korea), etc.