Symbiotic Ghost

/opening reception: February 18, 5:00–7:00 PM

/closing reception: February 27, 7:00–9:00 PM

/educational activation: February 28, 12:00–2:00 PM

/visits: February 16 – March 1, 2026

/presented artist: Yuli Sung

Lista Studios, Industry City Building #4, 6th floor, Suite B620 Entrance on 34, 35th street, 11232 Brooklyn, NY

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Symbiotic Ghost

Artist: Yuli Sung

Symbiotic Ghost takes form from materials the artist keeps active after their intended use. Hard drives, industrial casings, and technological remnants reenter the exhibition space carrying traces of circulation and contact. These elements operate as living matter, shaped by the systems they moved through and the conditions they continue to absorb.

In this exhibition, sculptural structures grow through attachment and extension. Components link, suspend, and migrate across surfaces, following a parasitic logic that adapts and evolves through accumulation and deformation, producing forms that stay open to further transformation.

Images and materials intertwine, generating a ghostly field where technological residues behave as ecological agents. Surfaces register touch, weight, and tension. Objects act as conduits, allowing memory and material presence to circulate through altered configurations.

Symbiotic Ghost is presented as the selected solo exhibition of the Solo Show Open Call, Winter 2026, a quarterly curatorial project by Uncool Gallery, dedicated to supporting contemporary artistic practices through focused exhibitions and sustained public visibility.

Neural Cord, 2025, Transparent silicone smartphone case, brass, wire, O-ring, latex, rice husks, mixed media, 15.7 × 55 × 31.5

Neural Cord, 2025, Transparent silicone smartphone case, brass, wire, O-ring, latex, rice husks, mixed media, 15.7 × 55 × 31.5

Parasitic Ghost 1, 2025, Discarded hard disk, wire, O-ring, artificial nails, brass, mixed media, 21 × 16 × 5.5

Parasitic Ghost 2, 2025, Discarded hard disk, wire, O-ring, artificial nails, brass, mixed media, 17 × 21.7 × 6

Parasitic Ghost 3, 2025, Discarded hard disk, wire, O-ring, artificial nails, brass, mixed media, 13.8 × 16.5 × 6.3

Parasitic Ghost 4, 2025, Discarded hard disk, wire, O-ring, artificial nails, brass, mixed media, 26.4 × 21.3 × 5.5

Educational Activation

An educational activation developed by the artist in collaboration with Lista Studios extends the exhibition into a participatory environment. Drawing from the project’s conceptual framework, the workshop invites participants to engage directly with the logic of ghost-like data through hands-on construction. Using familiar materials, participants explore new forms of ecological connection and movement, producing structures shaped through relation, mutation, and embodied decision-making. The activation translates the exhibition’s speculative processes into lived experience, allowing transformation to occur through collective making.

Workshop at Lista Studios

Installation shot. Garrett Carroll

Closing reception.

Artist Bio

Yuli Sung received her BFA from Hongik University in Korea and an MFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in the United States. She currently lives and works between Seoul and New York.

Her recent solo exhibitions include ‘Lullaby of Dusky Light’ at Haeum Goyang Art Studio(2024) and ‘Entangled Order of Things’ at Goyang Aram Art Museum (2024), as well as ‘Echoing Monologue’ at Cheongju Art Studio (2023). She was selected as “Best of Show” in Fake News at Spiva Art Gallery, Missouri Southern State University, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Korea and the U.S., including UNDERCURRENT at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art and Vitrine at Plexus Project. Her residency experiences include Cheongju Creative Art Studio and Haeum Goyang Art Studio in Korea, as well as The Wassaic Project, Abrons Arts Center, and the Vermont Studio Center in the U.S.

Symbiotic Ghost is Uncool Gallery’s Winter 2026 solo exhibition, selected through our open call.

Each season, one solo show and nine featured artists are presented as part of our ongoing commitment to emerging and critically engaged practices.

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