PLEATS: Interior Scenes with Soft and Affective Robots

"PLEATS: Interior Scenes with Soft and Affective Robots" is the solo exhibition of Eun Young Park. Since the ‘Radical Soft Robots’ project was initiated in 2019, the artist has explored the potential of soft robots as a critical medium and experimented with varied materials and techniques resulting in numerous prototypes. She found it interesting how cutting-edge research in soft robotics draws inspiration from traditional craft and design techniques such as origami and fabric manipulation and was fascinated by the forms, transformation and movement folding and pleating can make. This exhibition shows her experimentation on soft robots made with these techniques with varied themes of structure, light, memory, texture, etc. By this, she poses questions on what the robot will be like in the future home, the blurred borders between craft and technology, and furthermore materiality and gender of technology. 12.10-12.19. 2021 Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, South Korea

This exhibition is supported by City of Seoul, Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture, LACMA Art+Technology Lab, Zero1ne Creator Program