A network of tubes conjuring images of instantaneous movement of matter and energy between places.

From transporting people in Hyperloops to delivering mail through pneumatic tubes, interconnected tubes that move content represent the future as well as a bygone past. Today’s modern buildings, thick and cut off from the outdoors, cannot support life without a complex infrastructure of ducts for moving air. Liminal City presents an in-between place to be occupied and explored. It is built of elements that are designed to be unseen and arranged to connect fragments of space and time.

The site-specific installation is designed to stimulate interplay within the gallery spaces of the Hyundai Motor Studio Busan. Various limbs of Liminal City are fitted with mirrors. They work as periscopes that create visual connections across the length of the gallery and in between the ground floor, the second floor, and mezzanine level. A periscope also reaches down to passers-by outside so that they can view artwork inside the gallery above.

Liminal City was commissioned for the Do You Miss the Future? exhibition curated by Somi Sim. It was on display from December 9th, 2021 to March 31st, 2022.