{"id":252881,"date":"2026-05-22T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/human-connection-cuts-through-technology-at-focus-art-fair\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:25:08","slug":"human-connection-cuts-through-technology-at-focus-art-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/human-connection-cuts-through-technology-at-focus-art-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-22 18:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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After a day of Googling why my back hurt (sedentary computer lifestyle, inflamed SI joint), it only made sense that the art fair I attended the same afternoon would contain some element of human-technology body horror.<\/p>\n

When I arrived at the Thursday press preview for Focus Art Fair, dedicated to Asian art and held at Chelsea Industrial through Sunday, May 24, it seemed fitting that I would walk into a lobby filled with digital elements. I immediately met a recording of myself on a computer screen, but this version of me had a giant eyeball superimposed on her. <\/p>\n

The interactive installation, “What if two eyes don’t work together?” by South Korean artist Hwia Kim, is the first taste visitors get of the fair’s fourth edition theme, “human-technology coexistence.” This thematic anchor felt topical, and even corporate, given that one of the fair’s leading sponsors was the technology conglomerate LG Electronics.<\/p>\n

Hwia Kim’s “What if two eyes don’t work together?”<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, Focus features more than 40 galleries and presenters highlighting artists from Asia and its diaspora, though not all participants fit that description.<\/p>\n

Right after watching my torso turn into a glitching eyeball, I was surprised to encounter the disarmingly warm Ukrainian-born F-Twins (Anna and Valeriia Lyshchenko). The identical twin sisters create together, speak together, and are the founders of the Primarealism art movement together in response to a perceived growing cultural desire to outsource critical thinking to AI.<\/p>\n

The sharply intelligent artists talked me through their pieces displayed at the Opening Gallery’s entrance booth: “You Don’t Have To” (2026), a painting portraying a hand removing a blue nail from another in a statement of self-determination over difficult circumstances, and \u200a”To save the first, you have to see the night sky of me” (2026), a black charcoal and gold-leaf on paper work. Their practice, they explained, extends the sense of interconnectedness they feel…<\/p>\n

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