Moonsick Gang ‘almost: floor F’
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Moonsick Gang at Enter Enter
almost: floor F
30 October / 18:00
On October 30 2026, Seoul-based graphic designer Moonsick Gang returns to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and graduated from in 2012. On the same day Moonsick will turn 40.
In Korea the number four is often associated with death because the Sino-Korean pronunciations of 四 (four) and 死 (death) are identical. Because of this superstition, some elevators use the letter F instead of the number 4, so the floor buttons read 1, 2, 3, F, 5, 6, 7, 8 etc.
One month ago, Moonsick gathered around 100 books he had designed over the past decade and decided to burn one copy of each of those books. He documented the process with photographs and video after which he sifted the remaining ashes to be used as a new material.
While working with those ashes, Moonsick used several kinds of painting mediums ranging from acrylic and watercolour to oil, looking for different characteristics within them such as texture, density, opacity and adhesion. These experiments resulted in a spectrum of different grey inks that could be used to make new images with, giving the burned books a new function.
The new images produced with these inks mostly refer to things and objects that stayed with him over the years. He reproduced his old Rietveld ID card, a five-guilder telephone card Hans Gremmen gave him back in 2010, an old portrait photograph and a zebra sign he collected during his time in Amsterdam. While the images are new, they are made from the remains of his earlier work, bringing together materials and images from different moments in time.
The images will be shown alongside the video and photographic documentation of the burning at ENTER ENTER which will be turned into floor F. A place where old memories take on new likenesses, and where old and new friends gather to make new ones.
almost: floor F will open on 30 October 2026 from 18:00 and will be on view on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November
