Sea Art Festival 2025, Dadaepo Beach, Busan, South Korea
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
Ⓒ Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon)
Ⓒ Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon)
Ⓒ Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon)
Ⓒ Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon)
Ⓒ Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon)
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
ⓒ Plastique Fantastique
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POLYMETER
Sea Art Festival 2025
Dadaepo Beach, Busan, South Korea
In POLYMETER, materials with different temporalities converge in one space.
The outer shell of the work is made from fossil-based polyurethane, while the inner membrane is hand-crafted using locally harvested kelp. This delicate core, sensitive to heat and humidity, may dissolve entirely, revealing the fragility of organic life beneath a synthetic skin.
The two membranes, like two temporalities, never fully align: one fossilised, the other decomposing. Their interplay symbolises the tension and co-existence between synthetic durability and biological impermanence, between fossil capitalism and environmental regeneration.
Positioned at the threshold between land and sea, the sculpture transforms the shoreline into a site of sensorial reflection. It invites a dissonant pause — between breath and rupture, resilience and collapse — where plastic and water intertwine, and the future remains uncertain. (Keumhwa Kim)
Artist
Yena Young & Marco Canevacci (Plastique Fantastique)
Curator
Keumhwa Kim, Bernard Vienat
Plastique Fantastique Team
Sebastian Podesta, Valeria Landete, Maria Eleonora Ledesmam, Sarah Müller and Eunsoo Ko
Video
Marco Canevacci, Yena Young, Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon), Lee TaeHoon
Special thanks
Busan Biennale
The Busan Biennale Team and Mina Choi
POLYMETER
Inflatable site-specific installation
6m diameter, 4m height
TPU, kelp, poem
Ⓒ Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Photo: Changsu Yoon)