염인화 – Inhwa Yeom

2022, Koko Killing Island: Tour d’Epicure

Installation view of Koko Killing Island: Tour d’Epicure by Inhwa Yeom, with a glowing circular VR environment and sculptural dining stations at MMCA Seoul

Koko Killing Island: Tour d’Epicure (2022) is Inhwa Yeom’s MMCA-supported VR eco-tourism and gastronomy work on climate crisis, consumption, displacement, and care.

2024–25, SAUNA LAB

Installation view from Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB, a multi-channel media environment combining climate research, laboratory imagery, and Asian hot-spring culture

Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB (2024–25) imagines a climate-crisis research institute through hot-spring culture, ageing communities, science capital, and alternative knowledge.

2024-25, Solarsonic Band (Inst.)

Still from Inhwa Yeom’s Solarsonic Band: In Transit, a blue-silver virtual band landscape created for Incheon Airport’s 77.2-metre panoramic LED screen

Solarsonic Band (Inst.) is Inhwa Yeom’s 2024–25 four-wall moving-image installation: a climate rehearsal performed by instruments beyond human presence.

2024-25, Solarsonic Band

Virtual band members and climate landscape from Inhwa Yeom’s Solarsonic Band, an XR and AI performance created in 2024–25

Inhwa Yeom’s XR and AI climate performance follows a virtual band across five planetary systems, turning viewers into participants in climate adaptation.

2025, Phantom Dining — BiOVE

Participant wearing a VR headset at BiOVE’s Phantom Dining (2025), an XR installation with sculptural dining tables and interactive objects

BiOVE’s 2025 XR dining installation by Inhwa Yeom, Minseok Choi and Yiwen Tseng explores ingestion, consumption, phantom sensation, and human–nonhuman transformation.

2025, War Dance

Still from Inhwa Yeom’s War Dance (2025), an AI-powered moving-image work inspired by Korean Bul-gae mythology and the optical phenomena of sundog and moondog

War Dance (2025) by Inhwa Yeom—VH AWARD finalist moving image on Asian womxn, care, production and reproduction, Korean Bul-gae mythology, and AI audiovisual transformation.

2026, Solarsonic Band: In Transit

Inhwa Yeom’s 2026 XR/AI moving-image work spans a 77.2 × 4.3 m LED at Incheon Airport Terminal 2, imagining climate adaptation as a journey in transit.

2026, Takeaway: Love, Peace, Hospitality

Installation visualization of Inhwa Yeom’s Takeaway: Love, Peace, Hospitality, with a silver inflatable sculpture and two blue lenticular panels at Incheon Airport

Inhwa Yeom’s 2026 mixed-media installation at Incheon Airport asks what humanity must carry into a new world: love, peace, and hospitality. 염인화의 인천공항 설치작품.