Exhibition
A Place Called You

INSTALLATION VIEW “A Place Called You”, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist and PIBI Gallery.
From November 12 to December 27, 2025, PIBI Gallery presents A Place Called You, an AI opera installation by the convergence art collective Futuredays. The collective’s concept of “AI opera” expands the essence of opera—its totality of emotion, narrative, and sensation—through the technological language of our time. Here, AI is not treated merely as a tool but as an active performer that co-creates the emotional rhythm of the work. In this way, the viewer moves from being a passive spectator to becoming a co-author of the narrative and a participant in its emotional world.
Upon entering the gallery, visitors encounter a subtle emotional landscape of dim lighting and fog. For this exhibition, PIBI Gallery has pared down the space to its essentials, minimizing visual stimuli to create a 3D immersive sound environment that heightens sensory engagement. Gradually enveloped by spatial audio, visitors put on the Meta Quest headset and then slip into the emotional current of the work, following a narrative composed of AI-generated vocals and lingering emotional resonances.
A Place Called You centers on the theme of “memory of an invisible existence,” creating an emotional landscape of distance, resonance, form, and voice that spreads like fog along the sensory trace of “you.” With minimal visual cues, the work invites users on a journey through emotional currents.
As users encounter figures drifting in the fog, lingering echoes, and birds in flight, they enter an emotional stream that evokes distance, freedom, loss, and reconstructed memory. Without an explicit narrative, the work follows the flow of sensation and atmosphere, using sonic density and emotional space to convey the emotional spectrum within “HER” interior world. The opera’s four-part vocal structure operates not as simple speaker placement but as four distinct sonic voices that separate, move, and intersect around the audience. A melody might emerge from the front, then receive a contrapuntal response from behind, transforming the entire space into a musical score. The user then drifts through the emotional rhythm of the narrative, guided by the moving sounds. This intricate structure vividly embodies Futuredays’ vision: “Where XR, AI, and Art Meet the Future.”.
The protagonist (“HER”) is not merely an operatic character but a symbolic figure who revisits the historically marginalized place of women in music. The artists reconstruct Micaëla—portrayed as passive in Carmen—as “HER,” a subject of emotion and memory who speaks with her own voice. The work focuses on technically rendering emotional traces embedded in modern life, such as fragments of memory, the residue of relationships, and feelings of loss. By centering on sound and emotion rather than vision, it allows the audience to simultaneously follow someone else’s story and encounter a mirror that reflects their own feelings. In her artist statement, Inhyun Kim explains the emotional root of the work: “Each of us holds beliefs and wishes we long to keep pure and untainted. Amid life’s turmoil, this work captures the dual truth of what we strive to preserve yet inevitably lose. In the end, it becomes both ‘a place called you’ and ‘a story within me.’”
A Place Called You offers a unique opportunity to directly experience how technology and art can together create an emotional narrative. It will present new possibilities for how contemporary art can be perceived and experienced.
*A Place Called You has been invited to the Digital Art Showcase Program “Signal on Sale,” organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Arts Management Service, taking place from November 12 to 16, 2025. Beginning with an inquiry into how the notions of ownership and artistic experience expand when digital art merges with physical sensation, the showcase explores the technical and conceptual conditions that enable digital works to be created and collected. During the exhibition period, visitors not only experience the works but also encounter the technological standards that underpin the expanding ecosystem of digital art—from collection and preservation to file formats, installation environments, and artist documentation—offering insight into the “collectible forms” of digital creation.
About Artist
Futuredays, an convergence art collective founded by visual artist Joonsik Shin and composer Inhyun Kim, explores new artistic forms that transcend the boundaries between art and technology through digital convergence. Since its inception in 2015 with a series of VR painting–based exhibitions, the collective has developed digital convergence artworks through collaborations with artists and technologists across diverse fields including painting, music, dance, and information technology.
Futuredays creates immersive experiences where virtual and physical realities merge, inviting viewers to step inside, interact, and become part of the work. Their practice seeks to translate the artistic potential of the metaverse into tangible form, while offering unique experiences that reflect the spirit of the “hyper era” of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—defined by hyper-reality, hyper-intelligence, and hyper-connectivity.
Guided by the vision “Where XR, AI, and Art Meet the Future,” Futuredays continues to pioneer new artistic genres. This is particularly evident in their development of the “AI opera,” an unprecedented format that advances the future of immersive media—a fusion of XR and AI. Their 2023 exhibition Futuredays: One is All, All is One at the SOMA Museum of Art featured the metaverse opera I Lie (2022), which explored the artistic possibilities of digital-based art. In 2024, their presentation at Kiaf SEOUL by PIBI Gallery drew strong interest from audiences worldwide.
In 2018, Futuredays became the first Asian collective to be selected as archive artists for Microsoft Corporation’s Mixed Reality Capture Studio, and in 2019, they gained recognition from both art and technology sectors with the world’s first XR art exhibition. Today, their work extends across VR, AR, and MR technologies, incorporating AI-driven hyper-realistic media and real-time spatial interaction as new artistic mediums. Through this ongoing exploration, Futuredays continues to advance digital convergence and to lead the evolution of hyper-experiential art rooted in spatial computing.

INSTALLATION VIEW “A Place Called You”, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist and PIBI Gallery.
피비갤러리는 2025년 11월 12일부터 12월 27일까지 융합예술 그룹 퓨처데이즈(FUTUREDAYS)의 AI 오페라 인스톨레이션 《A Place Called You》를 개최한다. 퓨처데이즈가 제안하는 ‘AI 오페라’는 오페라의 본질인 ‘감정, 서사, 감각의 총체성’을 동시대 기술 언어로 확장한 실험으로, AI를 단순한 기술 도구가 아닌 감정의 흐름을 함께 만들어가는 공연의 주체로 삼는다. 이로써 관람객은 수동적인 감상자가 아니라 서사의 공동 창작자이자 감정적 주체로 참여하게 된다.
전시장에 들어서면 낮게 드리운 조도와 안개가 만들어내는 은은한 정서적 풍경이 관람객을 맞이한다. 피비갤러리는 본 전시를 위해 공간을 최대한 비워내고, 시각 자극을 최소화한 대신 3D 이머시브 사운드 환경을 조성하여 감각의 몰입을 유도한다. 관람객은 차츰 공간 오디오에 감싸이다가, 메타 퀘스트를 착용하는 순간 AI 보컬과 정서적 잔향으로 구성된 내러티브를 따라 감정의 흐름 속으로 자연스럽게 진입하게 된다.
전시작 (2024)는 퓨처데이즈의 메타버스 오페라 시리즈 중 ‘HER’를 기반으로 제작되었으며, 전통 오페라의 시청각 중심 서사를 탈피해 청각적 몰입과 정서적 흐름에 집중하는 방식으로 구성되었다. 작품은 Unity 기반의 실시간 3D 환경 위에 구현되며, 바이노럴(Binaural) 렌더링 기반의 공간 오디오(Spatial Audio), 생성형 AI 배우의 음성, 제스처·시선·음성 인식 기술 등이 결합된 독특한 감각적 체험을 제공한다. 특히 오페라의 4성부는 단순한 스피커 배치가 아닌, 관객을 둘러싼 공간 내에서 4개의 음향적 성부로 분리되어 이동하고 교차한다. 예를 들어, 하나의 선율이 관객의 전방에서 등장했다가 후방에서 대위적으로 응답하는 식으로, 공간 자체가 하나의 악보로 기능한다. 이로써 관람객은 소리의 움직임에 따라 이야기의 정서 흐름 속을 유영하게 된다. 이러한 복합 구조는 퓨처데이즈가 추구하는 “Where XR, AI, and Art Meets the Future”라는 비전을 뚜렷하게 보여준다.

INSTALLATION VIEW “A Place Called You”, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist and PIBI Gallery.
2025. 11. 12. (Wed) – 2025. 12. 27. (Sat)
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