Tangerine Reverie brings together works by Jina Shin, Hyeran Jang, and Bang Seonu at Bangdo, an art space housed in a converted residence in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul.

Tangerine Reverie begins with a question arising from an image of a slash-and-burn landscape, where fire, ash, and haze intersect beneath a tangerine fog. Is the breath we take in drawing the flesh of another into our lungs? Are we ingesting one another as breath, recycling each other as air?

Once a traditional agricultural practice, swidden farming has been transformed in the rapidly urbanized present into a practice that causes severe ecological damage and hardship. The romantic tangerine dusk encountered in a resort landscape arrives, paradoxically, both as a medium that conjures the others concealed within histories of industrialization and extraction and as an unsettling echo of those same histories.

Taking tangerine-hued fog and breath as its central motifs, the exhibition examines the religious, historical, and ecological…