Johyun Gallery is pleased to present concurrent solo exhibitions by Jin Meyerson and Lu Yang, presented as part of 2026 Loop Lab Busan, the international digital media art festival. The exhibitions are on view from April 23 through May 31, 2026, on the second and first floors, respectively, of the Johyun Gallery_Dalmaji exhibition space. Identity and being, as these are reconstituted under the conditions of a technologically mediated world, are the shared horizon of two practices that otherwise depart from distinct cultural and philosophical starting points.
Jin Meyerson was born in Incheon and raised in the United States through adoption as a young child. His practice operates at the intersection of Korea's postwar historical context, severed memory, and contemporary image technologies. His paintings and video works overlay meta-narratives and shifting stratas of recollection, disclosing a sense of self that is unfixed and perpetually under reconstitution. The accumulation and transformation of images is the method by which he constructs a nonlinear temporality. Past and present traverse one another, rendering visible the gap between history and the individual.
The Shape of Re-entry (2024), a large-scale painting, discloses the process of memory's re-entry through image-traces accumulated on a physical surface. Overview Effect (2025), a video work, approaches the question from the opposite direction: seeing the Earth from the outside, it explores a perceptual shift and the reconfiguration of distance. Light gradually brightens and fades over a five-meter painting in repeated cycles. As darkness falls, a video projection activates the opposing wall, extending the spatial narrative. The interplay between painting and video oscillates between digital imagery and material surface, proposing a non-linear, mutable understanding of time and causality. Together, the two works bring Meyerson's concerns into focus. "Re-entry" in his practice signifies not merely a return, but a condition of being continuously reconstituted through repetition and transformation.
Lu Yang, based between Shanghai and Tokyo, takes Buddhist philosophy and digital technology as the twin foundations of a sustained investigation into the nature of human existence. Game engines and 3D animation is the primary media through which they continually interrogate how the body and the self are reconstituted in digital environments. The DOKU series is centered on the artist's digital persona, and is the vehicle through which this interrogation is most fully realized, exposing the multiplicity of identity and the mutability of being. DOKU: Six Realms of Samsara, presented on the first floor, is a six-channel video installation. The six realms of Buddhist cyclical rebirth are rendered on separate screens. The simultaneous playback of video and discrete sound channels draws the viewer into a dispersed sensory environment, producing an embodied experience of iteration and circulation. The work gives visible form to the modes of being that extend beyond the physical body into digital space.
The two artists think through time and existence by different means. Meyerson explores the disruption of identity through the re-entry of history and memory; Lu Yang presents the iteration and transformation of being through the structures of reincarnation and digital circulation. The two practices converge on a fundamental question: "where did I come from, and where am I headed?" leading the viewer into an experience where physical displacement and perceptual reorientation intersect. The exhibition traverses between memory and data, body and avatar, past and future, asking us to see human existence not as a fixed substance but as something situated within a process of continuation. What they propose is more than a narrative of return: it is a reflection on contemporary modes of being premised on change and transformation.
This exhibition is situated within a broader current of contemporary digital media art unfolding across the city of Busan. The Busan Museum of Art organizes the international digital media art festival 2026 Loop Lab Busan from April through June. Now in its second edition, the festival encompasses diverse exhibitions and forum programs organized around the mediation of time and image. Some thirty cultural and arts institutions across the Busan region participate in this year's collaborative platform, with concurrent multilayered programming including Digital Subculture, Moving on Asia, and the institutional partnership exhibition Zero Lab Busan. Public and private exhibition spaces throughout the city participate in constituting Busan as a single expanded exhibition platform.
