What You See Is Already Shifting
2026.03.14 - 2026.04.25
Artist: Olivia Jeeyun Joung, Bo Kim, Sam King, Silvia Muleo, Maya Silverberg
Cub_ism_ Artspace presents What You See Is Already Shifting, a group exhibition featuring Olivia Jeeyun Joung, Bo Kim, Sam King, Silvia Muleo, and Maya Silverberg, on view from March 14 to April 25, 2026.
In a media-saturated world where reality is increasingly mediated, simulated, and commodified, perception is no longer stable. Images flicker between presence and disappearance; surfaces oscillate between depth and flatness; meaning emerges only to dissolve again. Vision becomes contingent, suspended between certainty and doubt. Reality does not fracture elsewhere — it is already unstable at the moment of perception.
Bringing together painting, sculpture, video, and installation, What You See Is Already Shifting treats perception as an ongoing process that dissolves, recalibrates, and reassembles in real time. Across the exhibition, seeing unfolds as a negotiation between material and image, body and screen, memory and sensation. The works resist immediacy and singular interpretation, inviting viewers to inhabit ambiguity rather than resolve it.
Olivia Jeeyun Joung explores perception through gestures of care and emotional accumulation. Rooted in the Korean concept of Jeong (정), her practice transforms touch, repetition, and material labor into a visual language of connection. Using thread, traditional fabrics, and hand-applied marks, Joung records intimate gestures that slowly accumulate over time. Through these tactile processes, perception emerges not through immediate recognition, but through embodied attention and shared emotional resonance.
Bo Kim approaches perception through the lens of impermanence. Working with natural materials such as hanji paper, sand and flowers, she transforms fleeting moments within the flow of time into layered visual fields. Her practice reflects an understanding that relationships between humans, nature, and objects are never fixed but continuously evolving, allowing perception to emerge through subtle textures and temporal awareness.
Sam King engages perceptual instability through the language of spectacle. Drawing on pixelation, internet imagery, and nostalgic motifs, his paintings shimmer between formation and dissolution. Seductive surfaces collapse depth into sensation, reflecting the overstimulation and alienation embedded in contemporary image culture.
Silvia Muleo investigates perception at the threshold between digital and physical space. Working across video, painting, and installation, she constructs environments shaped by erasure, distortion, and interruption. Screens function simultaneously as windows and barriers, destabilizing spatial orientation and revealing perception as continually interrupted, distorted, and reconstructed.
Maya Silverberg’s sculptural works occupy the space between image and object, challenging assumptions of representation and material stability. Through bending, layering, and material negotiation, her practice foregrounds the agency of matter itself. Forms shift in relation to the viewer’s movement, emphasizing perception as relational and embodied.
Reflecting a broader shift in contemporary curatorial practice from examining representation and digital systems toward investigating perception itself, the exhibition brings together artists from diverse backgrounds whose works approach seeing as fluid, unstable, and continually negotiated. What You See Is Already Shifting invites viewers to remain within uncertainty—to recognize that perception is never fixed, never complete, and always in the process of becoming.
