Song Minjae has long explored states that exist before form fully emerges, as well as the process of its becoming, through the unfamiliar materiality of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a water-reactive synthetic polymer. Powder meets water and gains viscosity; thinly spread membranes slowly dry within air and time, creating contraction and tension. His works reveal themselves precisely at the point where intended structures intersect with unpredictable transformation. Never fully controlled, the material searches for its own equilibrium and, in doing so, chooses its own form. The result remains not as a fixed or completed sculpture, but as a state that still holds the possibility of further change.

The transparent material Song Minjae works with is, in itself, close to a trace of time. Fine particles and textures visible across the surface, along with distortions and tensions formed through the speed of drying, quietly reveal the path the material has undergone. Rather than “making” form, he lingers over the moment in which form is still “coming into being.” Even within repetitive processes of production, the artist does not seek to fix the result, but instead embraces the intervention of materiality, environment, and time as part of the work itself. In this way, the work exists not as a finished outcome, but as an ever-changing state.

The “fan light” series presented for the first time in this exhibition is an extension of this attitude through its encounter with light. Beginning from a structure that directly touches the bulb, folded into curved forms, and sustained by the tension within the material itself, these works unfold in a direction distinct from the conventional order of lighting. Here, light does not merely illuminate form; it becomes a medium that reveals the condition of the material and renders the flow of transformation more perceptible. In particular, the delicate layers formed by hanji and PVA softly diffuse the light, quietly blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, form and formlessness.

The exhibition title, , refers not to a fixed light, but to a light that continuously changes and lingers as though alive. Just as the material subtly shifts in response to moisture, air, temperature, and time, light too exists within this exhibition as a fluid and responsive sensation. Rather than completing a fixed form, the light settling upon the works slowly trembles across surfaces, particles, and the air of the space, creating yet another state of being.

What matters in Song Minjae’s practice is not a completed result, but the duration of a state that never fully arrives at completion. The material, whose tension and density shift according to season and environment, continues to respond as though alive, while forms remain open to the possibility of ongoing transformation rather than becoming rigidly fixed. Through this process, the artist regards sculpture not as a final outcome, but as a condition placed within time.

This first solo exhibition at Gallery MOSOON presents the most concentrated articulation yet of the artist’s long exploration into materiality and processes of formation. The sculptures, lighting works, and the delicate layers suspended between them do not converge toward a singular conclusion, but instead suggest a time that continues to evolve and unfold. Rather than presenting finished results, the exhibition invites viewers to follow the slow flow and sensibility through which these forms come into being.

In this way, becomes a record of moments in which forms and light have not yet fully settled. Within it, we encounter both the time through which matter shapes itself, and an attitude that continues to gaze patiently upon that becoming.