동성캉캉✧Can-Can Boys, 2019
Exhibited at artbn, Seoul, Korea, 2019









Installation view (from left to right)
Sungwon Yoo(text) x Seungwook Yang(photograpgh), 인생을 어떻게 살아야 할지는 몰르겟다..(Loads Taken 7, 8..), 2019, digital printed on paper.
Seungwook Yang, Treasure Hunt, 2019, digital c print.
Dew Kim, Glory! Glory! Glory!, 2019.


Glory! Glory! Glory! (backside), 2019
















유성원 <외로움의 조건> 중에서


Dew Kim, Hurt My Ass Not My Heart, 2019.
Seungwook Yang, Treasure Hunt, 2019, digital c print.
Dew Kim, Profile Not Found, 2019.


Photo by Jungwoo Lee
In the exhibition Can-Can Boys, Dew Kim explores queer cruising culture as it expands and mutates in response to physical spaces and individual locations. Queer desires and existence unfold through the uncertainty and hallucinogenic phenomena of gay subcultures such as cruising, BDSM, chemsex, and cybersex.
The installation Glory! Glory! Glory! (2019) is a stall from a public toilet where defecation takes place. Glory holes are drilled into the wall and adorned with stickers. This space, rampant with illicit act, exists in a state of ecstasy engendered by taboo and violation. The glory hole is connected to an adjacent space covered with ghost semen called Hurt My Ass Not My Heart (2019). A corner is littered with tailbones and skeletal remains that burn or break during anal sex. The non-physical death evoked by these bodily objects that have been decimated during the act of cruising is further evoked by the scent of sex and poppers that linger in the air. In the corner is a mop transformed into chrysanthemum flowers.
Through the lens of cruising, where hedonistic desires and personalities coexist, this work probes notions of death and dying as seen in Profile Not Found (2019), a tombstone commemorating the virtual death of anonymous hook ups with whom one has shared body and saliva.
The installation Glory! Glory! Glory! (2019) is a stall from a public toilet where defecation takes place. Glory holes are drilled into the wall and adorned with stickers. This space, rampant with illicit act, exists in a state of ecstasy engendered by taboo and violation. The glory hole is connected to an adjacent space covered with ghost semen called Hurt My Ass Not My Heart (2019). A corner is littered with tailbones and skeletal remains that burn or break during anal sex. The non-physical death evoked by these bodily objects that have been decimated during the act of cruising is further evoked by the scent of sex and poppers that linger in the air. In the corner is a mop transformed into chrysanthemum flowers.
Through the lens of cruising, where hedonistic desires and personalities coexist, this work probes notions of death and dying as seen in Profile Not Found (2019), a tombstone commemorating the virtual death of anonymous hook ups with whom one has shared body and saliva.


전시리뷰 <크루징의 수행자들> 양지윤 ︎ ︎Review for the exhibition <Endeavorers for Cruising> by Jiyoon Yang