JEON BYEONG SAM: InterFace
22 JAN - 22 FEB 2026
CAPITOL SINGAPORE Exhibition Hall
(#01-19/20, near Outdoor Plaza)
13 Stamford Road, Singapore 178905
12PM - 8PM (MON-SUN)
Opening party: 22 JAN 2026, 7PM
As part of Singapore Art Week 2026: https://www.artweek.sg/event-detail/InterFace
Supported by
CAPITOL SINGAPORE, CHIJMES, ARTBODA, OUTPOST ENTERTAINMENT, DONGWON F&B, J SCIENCE Inc., VIVIDARC, BAKERY BRERA
Official Media Partner
Viu Singapore
Introduction
JEON BYEONG SAM, a South Korean artist who has established a unique territory in contemporary art, has been focusing on the artistic possibilities of "The Finite." He explores the process by which objects with a beginning and an end acquire a new sense of presence through repetition and layering.
Held as part of Singapore Art Week 2026, the exhibition JEON BYEONG SAM: InterFace presents 21 new works, including three large-scale fabric installations. This exhibition centers on the face—the most distinctive human element—reconstructing the diversity of individuals across different races, genders, ages, and professions into experimental compositions using the artist’s signature "repetition-layer" technique.
The artist has gathered 30 representative human portraits, including 10 Singaporeans—such as the nation’s beloved actor Mark Lee and famous influencer Chiou Huey—as well as acquaintances from around the world met through previous exhibitions and virtual personas generated by AI technology.
Bridging the real and the virtual, the artist prints approximately 20,000 photographs of these subjects onto fabric and paper, followed by a disciplined, performative process of precise layering. In this process, the specific features of the individuals vanish, leaving behind only the abstract color patterns created by the countless layers. These serve as "collective visual units" that transcend individual identity, symbolizing the new types of relationships we form within the complex networks of contemporary society.
"My work is a process of drawing out infinite contemplation through finite matter," says JEON BYEONG SAM. Through this exhibition in Singapore—a crossroads of diverse cultures and values—he poses fundamental questions about the essence of existence. We invite you to join this journey of stacking the textures of finite beings to create a space for infinite thought.
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현대미술의 독창적인 영역을 구축해온 한국의 전병삼 작가는 ‘유한함(The Finite)’이 지닌 예술적 가능성에 주목하며, 시작과 끝이 있는 모든 대상이 반복과 중첩을 통해 새로운 존재감을 획득하는 과정을 탐구해 왔습니다.
싱가포르 아트 위크 2026(Singapore Art Week 2026)을 맞아 개최되는 이번 전시 《JEON BYEONG SAM: InterFace》는 새롭게 시도하는 그의 대형 패브릭 설치작품 3점을 포함한 총21점의 신작을 선보입니다. 이번 전시는 인간의 가장 특징적인 요소인 얼굴에 주목하여, 서로 다른 인종과 성별, 나이와 직업을 가진 인물들의 다양성을 작가 특유의 반복중첩 기법으로 한 화면에 재구성한 실험적 결과물을 만날 수 있습니다.
작가는 싱가포르의 국민 배우 마크 리(Mark Lee)와 유명 인플루언서 치우 휴이(Chiou Huey)를 포함한 싱가포르인 10명, 그리고 지난 전시들을 통해 만난 세계 각지의 지인들과 AI기술로 생성한 가상의 인물까지 총 30인의 대표적 인간 초상을 한자리에 모았습니다.
작가는 실재와 가상을 가로지르는 이들의 사진 약 20,000장을 패브릭과 종이에 인쇄한 뒤, 정교하게 중첩하는 수행적 과정을 거칩니다. 이 과정에서 구체적인 인물의 형상은 사라지고, 수많은 레이어가 만들어낸 추상적인 색패턴만이 남게 됩니다. 이는 개인의 정체성을 넘어선 ‘집단적 시각 단위’이자, 현대 사회의 복잡한 네트워크 속에서 우리가 맺고 있는 새로운 관계성을 상징합니다.
“나의 작업은 유한한 물질을 통해 무한한 사유를 이끌어내는 과정입니다.”라고 말하는 전병삼은 이번 전시를 통해 다양한 문화와 가치가 교차하는 싱가포르에서 존재의 본질에 대한 근원적인 화두를 던집니다. 유한한 존재의 결을 쌓아 올려 무한한 사유의 공간을 창조하는 이 여정에 여러분을 초대합니다.
WAVE 20251216001, 600 x 300 cm, Sewing on printed fabric, 2025, JEON BYEONG SAM
MOMENT 20251223016 INTERFACE, 60 x 60 cm, Stacking printed photographs, 2025, JEON BYEONG SAM
MOMENT 20251223031 INTERFACE, 60 x 60 cm, Stacking printed photographs, 2025, JEON BYEONG SAM
MOMENT 20251223009 INTERFACE, 60 x 60 cm, Stacking printed photographs, 2025, JEON BYEONG SAM (Detail)
MOMENT 20251223002 INTERFACE Mark Lee, 60 x 60 cm, Stacking printed photographs, 2025, JEON BYEONG SAM
About the Artist:
JEON BYEONG SAM is a South Korean contemporary artist best known for his unique forms of abstract art created with extremely repetitive and dense arrangement of specific objects or their photographs. He focuses on 'the finite', everything in the world that has a beginning and an end. It encompasses not only individual life but also nations, industries, cultures, ethnicities, ideologies, and languages—concepts we once believed to be eternal. His work explores the infinite possibilities within the finitude of material. This is not merely a visual experiment but an artistic contemplation on the fundamental question, 'What is existence?'
He studied in sculpture at Hongik University, received MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MS from the University of California, Irvine. In 2014, he was selected as ‘Homocriens,’ a representative convergence talent of Korea, by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. He worked as the artistic director of the 9th Cheongju International Biennale. In 2016, he held an invitational exhibition at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, and collaborated with Lamborghini in Beijing, China. His artworks have been invited to UNESCO (France), SIAF (Japan), SIGGRAPH (USA), ISIMD (Turkey), AsiaGraph (China), ArtBots (Ireland), Salon (Cuba), LIFE (Russia), Netfilmmakers (Denmark), and Siggraph ASIA (Singapore).
Artist Portfolio (PDF): https://bsjeon.com/JeonByeongSam_EN.pdf
The related exhibition the artist presents in Singapore:
