A free exhibition dedicated to Korean digital art, housed in the heart of a former boiler room!

When the Korean Cultural Centre and the Fiminco Foundation team up, it becomes an original and interactive exhibition that probes our relationship with Artificial Intelligence. The Korean artist Yiyun Kang, a renowned figure in South Korea's digital art scene, has conceived three immersive installations that put AI in front of us.

This exhibition, titled Illumination, runs from April 24 to June 21, 2026 in the Boiler Room space. Here you’ll encounter unusual works, where each visitor can question and confront their fears and hopes tied to new technologies, above all to AI. Gradually, the artist guides us through a reflection that is at once intimate and social, forging links between machines, humans, and living beings.

The first installation is titled Great Anxiety. This work tackles the dangers of AI and the fears surrounding this new technology: job loss, the spread of misinformation, fake images, the erosion of autonomy... The artist aims to surface these feelings of fear and anxiety while weaving in elements of beauty and fascination to symbolize the contradictory emotions the public may feel.

In Echo Chamber, visitors enjoy chatting with a chatbot that nudges them into two stark, opposing narratives: one relentlessly upbeat and optimistic, the other utterly fatalistic. Nuance is off the menu, and escaping these binary takes is nearly impossible—unless someone can break free from these prepackaged extremes to form a more subtle, independent view of the algorithms at play.

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The latest installation by Yiyun Kang invites us to elevate our thinking, linking the digital with the living, the human with the machine, to foster a more peaceful and beneficial ecosystem.

Interactive experience, dynamic lighting, and a soundscape: this free exhibition invites you to engage your senses and dive into digital art and the artist’s universe. The route is complemented by works from four emerging Korean talents: reality and the virtual collide and weave through these pieces, probing the relationship between humans and technology. The artists challenge us to view this ultra-modern, highly technological world from a different angle — at once potentially life-affirming and profoundly destabilizing.

The exhibition brings together several works crafted to provoke thought and spark questions in visitors. The first part, conceived by Yiyun Kang, confronts head-on the anxiety surrounding artificial intelligence and offers a more poetic counterpoint. Her debut installation, Great Anxiety, uses a lighting scheme that blends artificial and natural light, since this foundation gallery is very bright: the scenography shifts as the hours pass. With free admission, you’re welcome to return and experience the installation from a different perspective.

Note that some works in this exhibition may evoke a certain unease, and you should be prepared to push through it. While the route includes a few interactive installations, one of them is text-based and displayed in English, so a basic grasp of the language will help. The second part of the show spotlights works by HaYoung, Intae Hwang, Youngchan Ko, and Jisoo You, adding contemplative pieces for some and exploratory ones for others—distinct from one another and collectively offering a diverse, plural view of digital art.

We’re treated to an astonishing virtual setup that invites us to call the shots, an olfactory sculpture that stands as a metaphor for cookies, a video installation that plunges us into the world of cataphiles, and a collaborative piece where every visitor can leave their mark.

The works on display are fairly complex and concept-driven; this isn’t a playful show aimed at families. Instead, it offers a philosophical meditation on the dilemmas and challenges facing humanity, presented through art as a form of raising awareness.

The Fiminco Foundation is hosting an exhibition that gives us plenty to think about, while revealing the work of artists from across the globe. The free exhibition will be on view in the spring in Romainville.