Digital Artists
Yang Jung Uk Builds Machines Out of Thread, Motors and Wooden Rods — and They Tell Stories
Yang Jung Uk, a 2024 Korea Artist Prize recipient, presents People in Prayer at P21 in Seoul (August 31 – October 9, 2026): kinetic sculptures built from small motors and thread affixed to slender wooden rods, which carry the anatomical logic of tendons and ligaments and turn light, shadow, sound and motion into narrative machines.