This study examines the relationship between the pandemic and contemporary art, and focuses on how the global health crisis shapes artistic language, themes, and expressionstyles. It seeks to explore the possibility of coexistence of art and the way t...
This study examines the relationship between the pandemic and contemporary art, and focuses on how the global health crisis shapes artistic language, themes, and expressionstyles. It seeks to explore the possibility of coexistence of art and the way the theoretical concepts of the pandemic and the crises of the times are expressed in visual language, and to examine social discourse. From the past to the present, several works affected by the pandemic and three representative artists have reproduced the pandemic in their own way, while also thinking about the trend of the times brought about by the pandemic with their own techniques. Previous pandemics reproduced art that depicted fear, death, and divine punishment, while contemporary art approaches pandemics from more diverse perspectives than in the past, such as recovery and memory, scientific visualization, and socio-political criticism.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated changes in modern dissemination, and virtual exhibitions, social media, and digital video works by artists based on online platforms have emerged.
Contemporary pandemic-related art does not merely record disasters but has become a practice that fundamentally questions human life and death, as well as social relationships, delivering messages that make us look back once again.
It is thought that this canalso be used as a conceptual framework that constantly challenges and expands the boundaries of art related to pandemics.