Roy Gallery will showcase a new exhibition booth at the 2024 Define Seoul under the theme "Human-Hand-Machine." On one side, there will be figurative works by Lee Yunsung and abstract paintings by Yang Hyunmo. On the other side, paintings created by machines will be displayed, not by human hands, made by Shin Gyomyung. Furniture from Standard a., precisely crafted using computer and CNC processes, along with lacquerware created by intangible cultural asset No. 13 Park Gangyong, a master of traditional craft from Jeonbuk, will also be featured.

Painting, furniture, and crafts all share a commonality: they emerge from the friction between humans and materials. In the production of art, design, and daily objects, there has been a pursuit of the mechanization of humans and the humanization of machines. The painter embodies a more precise two-dimensional world through the body, akin to a machine, developed through training. On the opposite side of the human who learns and controls breathing, there exists a painting created by a machine operated by a program coded by humans. The machine, which generates imperfection, randomness, and unpredictable outcomes, reveals the intellectual activities of the human behind it. Craftspeople continuously reproduce natural patterns that cannot be explained solely by reason and concepts, pushing through the gaps between material and sensation, acquired over a long period.