Yehwan Song '26 Presents Solo Exhibition 'The Other Internet' at Subtitled NYC

How is the internet like water?

Yehwan Song '26 addresses this question in her solo exhibition—an installation of her kinetic sculpture The Other Internet—on view this summer at Subtitled NYC, an artist-run project space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The exhibition—which Hyperallergic included in their guide to New York's must-see art shows this summer—expands on Song's continued interest in water as a metaphor for the internet: web "surfing," "streaming" services, the "deep" web. "This language produces powerful imaginaries that romanticize the internet, fostering illusions of anonymity, freedom of speech, democracy, and open exploration," she writes in the exhibition's press release. "At the same time, these metaphors obscure users' ability to recognize the structural inequities embedded in the internet itself."

The Other Internet takes its cues from another, more ancient technology whose seamless façade for painstaking engineering was used by Early Modern European governments and industrialists as a symbol of power: fountains.

Water spurts over slick, bright smartphone screens, triggering sentences to appear in various languages; as valves release stronger and weaker streams, different languages emerge and fade. As countries restrict and release data to tech giants, Song reveals the geopolitical flow of information that makes up the "worldwide" web as anything but neutral.

Curator Brian Droitcour compares Song's fountain to "the tiered, cascading fountains of Versailles, Peterhof, or Generalife, where architecture and water infrastructure merge," in the exhibition's press release. "To understand the texture of life in the present and how technology shapes it, she reaches back to older technologies—ones that reveal their workings, so you can see how the parts move and respond to each other. She approaches the web as an environment shaped by historical, political, and economic forces: an infrastructure structured around the calculated motives of states and corporations."

Song, a New York-based artist working across installation, performance, and web-based media, explores how digital culture reshapes perception, attention, and everyday life. Her recent solo exhibitions include Are We Still (Surfing?) at Pioneer Works (New York, 2025) and The Internet Barnacles at G Gallery (Seoul, 2025). Song has participated in major exhibitions including the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022), Helsinki Biennial (2023), and the Asia Art Biennale (Taichung, 2024), and has presented work at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, 2026). Upcoming presentations include the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2026) and Edith Russ Haus (Oldenburg, 2026).

The Other Internet is on view this summer, June 12–August 23, 2026, at Subtitled NYC, located at 113 Franklin St in Brooklyn.