Song E Yoon's exhibition "Songs Across Time" at Spazio 996/A in Venice, presented as a Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, pairs her Song E Code with Frédéric Bruly Bouabré's Bété alphabet. In an interview with Kun Sok, Yoon discusses how her work uses dots, intervals, and repetition to create a visual language that exists before conventional meaning, emphasizing bodily encounter, sensation, and the productive role of misreading.
This exhibition matters because it positions Yoon's practice within a lineage of invented writing systems, connecting her contemporary Korean-born work to Bouabré's influential African script. By foregrounding pre-linguistic sensation over immediate comprehension, Yoon challenges viewers to reconsider how meaning is formed, making a case for art as a space where language begins—and where misunderstanding becomes a generative force rather than a failure.