Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2024, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

Scavengers, you are crying for you. how sweet. 180 x 80 x 110 cm, electrical cables, epoxy putty, dried moss, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, repurposed plastic waste, steel spray, 2024, Hand 1, 7 x 7 x 27 cm, electrical cable, polymer gypsum, acrylic color epoxy putty, fiberglass, repurposed plastic waste, treated wood, 2023  Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2024, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

  Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2024, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

  Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2024, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

Detail, Scavengers, you are crying for you. how sweet. 180 x 80 x 110 cm, electrical cables, epoxy putty, dried moss, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, repurposed plastic waste, steel spray, 2024, Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

bouquet of regrettable thoughts 21 x 18 x 29 cm Medium: glass, electrical cable, polymer gypsum, epoxy putty, fiberglass, repurposed plastic waste spray, 2024, Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

bouquet of regrettable thoughts 21 x 18 x 29 cm Medium: glass, electrical cable, polymer gypsum, epoxy putty, fiberglass, repurposed plastic waste spray, 2024, Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

Hand 2 7 x 7 x 34 cm, electrical cable, polymer gypsum, acrylic color, epoxy putty, fiberglass, repurposed plastic waste, treated wood, 2023, Installation view of Neuro Hard at Con Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Photo by Daiki Tajiri

NEURO HARD
Minhee KIm, Yein Lee
27th November 2024 - 12th January 2025
Opening: 27th November 18:00-21:00 
CON Tokyo Gallery
maruka 4F, 2-2-14 Nihonbashi Bakurocho, Chuoku, Tokyo
東京都中央区日本橋馬喰町 2-2-14 maruka 4F
There is no heart here. There is no god. A bundle of cables is laid out in every direction. The firing of electrical signals never stops flickering. This planet is nothing more than that. A “machine city” made of plastic and minerals. A neural network generated anew each time. A world where human dreams have shattered.
The body that was once unified—its face, hands, gender—became materials of the network, its essential conditions. The mechanism where biological reproduction and industrial reproduction became synonymous gave rise to a hybrid of flowers and brains, minerals and hair, neurons and hardware, weaving deformed love and myth. Now, the function of creation once entrusted to nature and motherhood has been replaced by the connection and transformation of all things. This is called "healing." Wounds become factors that generate new circuits, and the world continues to be rewritten, molded by pain, dysfunction, difference, and disconnection.
The healing of wounds. That is the most beautiful phenomenon in this world.
Design: Heijiro Yagi 
Text: Eisaku Sakai