From April 27 to June 8, 2025, Shanghai Powerlong Museum will host Is Everything Interconnected?, the first solo exhibition in China by Korean sculptor Kim Woojin. Following the 2018 exhibition Korean Abstract Art: Kim Whanki and Dansaekhwa, which offered a comprehensive introduction to modern Korean art, this exhibition marks another significant curatorial project by Powerlong Museum after solo exhibitions of artists including Nam Tchunmo, Lee Jinwoo, Kim Jaeyong.

Kim Woojin subverts anthropocentric order through animal imagery, using sculptural language to explore the possibilities of multispecies symbiosis. Abandoning fixed contours, he builds organic structures with loosely connected modular units, transforming sculpture from a “finished object” into a “relational existence”. In this exhibition, animals with distinct habitats and behaviors, such as horses, deer, rabbits, cats, cranes and dogs, coexist harmoniously in a shared space. This vision of symbiosis goes beyond simple visual juxtaposition, inviting the audience to imagine how life might form new ecological bonds once roles and hierarchies are dismantled.

In an age of climate crisis and ecological transition, the world can no longer be interpreted solely through human-centered perception and thinking. Kim Woojin’s sculptures focus on the fluid, non-hierarchical ways of connection among non-human beings. His animal figures resist becoming fixed symbols or objects of consumption, instead, they adapt to their environment, continuously transforming and growing through relational interplay.

The exhibition poses the question “Is Everything Interconnected?” as a way to reflect on how the structures of the world we take for granted are socially constructed, and on the fluid and complex networks of relationships within them. Through sculptural language, Kim Woojin engages in a philosophical inquiry into the contemporary world, asking how we might reestablish connection and coexistence. More than a formal experiment, his work offers a new mode of perception inspired by non-human life, reimaging awareness and coexistence through art in the age of ecological transition.