"Regenerated" presents a rare opportunity to experience ten years of work by artist Seungjin Lee created throughout his life in New York. Spanning painting, drawing, and performance, the exhibition reveals a wide range of expression, yet a single concept remains consistent throughout his practice: the pursuit of expressing daily life shaped and disturbed by digital technology.
Lee explores a world where AI-generated art can produce something beyond imagination in an instant, without the body needing to move. Platforms such as YouTube calculate personal taste, chance, and desire before conscious choice is even made, delivering images and videos that feel uncannily precise. Social media pours endless information like running water, while broken digital displays strangely reflect human impulse and the proof of being alive.
Through these works, Lee examines the physical and psychological ways of accepting a city like New York City as it continues to transform under changing digital systems and social structures. He holds a deep affection for the digital tools he touches every day, while also confronting the unease they create—an unspoken relationship between dependence, fascination, and anxiety.
At its core, Regenerated is an exhibition about reconstructing these emotions: the tension between human presence and digital existence, and the search for meaning within a world that is constantly being rewritten.
