M Gallery, CICA Museum
April 9 – 13, 2025
2025.4.9 – 4.13
IN THE WAKE OF FORM
Engaging with the translation from virtual model to physical artifact reveals a dynamic interplay of control and surrender. While digital sculpting offers boundless freedom to manipulate form, the act of materialization introduces unpredictability and demands collaboration with materials. This evolving dialogue between creator and medium highlights both limitations and possibilities, embedded in navigating the threshold between the virtual and the tangible. This joint exhibition brings together the practices of Woo Yeon Kim and Juliet Russo, each navigating the liminal space between imagined and material realities. Both artists approach form as something mutable —— shaped by both external forces and internal narratives. Their works resist fixed definitions, instead navigating a space of displacement, where digital tools, material choices, and subjective impressions fold into each other. In this space, boundaries between artificial and organic, imagined and real, dissolve. Through their shared interest in transformation and translation —– whether from code to object, thought to terrain, or image to material —– their works ask: What does it mean to render an inner world into physical space? How do technologies of vision and creation shift our understanding of what’s natural? What’s possible? And what’s felt?
Juliet Russo was born in 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently based in Chicago, USA. Juliet is a visual artist who creates mixed media artwork and conceptual works. Her artworks are based on imaginary landscapes and are inspired by films, topography, music, and personal experiences.
Woo Yeon Kim (They/Them) was born in Korea, and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Their work blurs boundaries between what is natural and artificial by creating digital sculptures evoked by organic forms found in fossils, fungi, and cell micrographs. The sculptures are materialized through processes like 3D printing, CNC, and aluminum casting. This synthesis reflects the complexities of our entangled environment, where perception and technology mediate reciprocall —– each informing and transforming the other.
