ABOUT
reSOUND New York is a site-specific multisensory art exhibition presented by d’strict at HERO, Rockefeller Center. Originally launched in 2024 at Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul’s historic former central train station reimagined as a cultural venue, reSOUND has evolved into an expansive cultural platform that brings together artists and collectives working across sound, video, light, installation, sculpture, and material practices. Beneath one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, reSOUND transforms overlooked architectural space into a layered sensory environment where sound, light, touch, and movement converge.
This new season, reSENSE, on view through October 18, 2026, brings together newly introduced works and broader interdisciplinary collaborations, proposing a series of environments where artworks are not merely viewed or decoded, but inhabited. In an ever more screen-centered, individualized, and accelerated age, opportunities for fully embodied sensory experience have become increasingly rare. reSENSE opens a different kind of space: neither a museum nor an experiential venue, but a site where sensation is allowed to arrive before meaning does. Unfolding across eight stages, the exhibition invites visitors through a carefully sequenced sensory journey at their own pace.
The first stage, ARRIVAL opens the new season with Story of Flowers, an animated short film by UK-based artist and illustrator Katie Scott, created in collaboration with motion designer James Paulley and Japanese flower artist Azuma Makoto. Tracing the lifecycle of flowers in luminous, layered detail, the work weaves Scott’s illustrative precision, rooted in scientific observation and fantastical imagination, with Paulley’s fluid motion and Makoto’s poetic understanding of floral form. Tender and visually immersive, it opens the senses and establishes the exhibition’s atmospheric foundation.
TRANSITO then reveals a luminous passage extending forward into space. This installation by Children of the Light transforms radiant columns of light into an architectural corridor that continuously shifts and reshapes, evoking sensations of weightlessness and spatial dissolution. Accompanied by a soundtrack composed for glass harmonica, the work dissolves architecture into atmosphere, carrying audiences into an endless visual and spatial moment that conveys a sense of transition beyond physical boundaries.
In the next stage, BOUNDLESS expands into moments that are at once intimate and collective. Tactile Orchestra by Fillip Studios invites visitors to use the walls as instruments, collaborating with one another to create harmonies and rhythms that unfold into an emerging symphony, while cultivating a deeply sensory connection with sound. Boundless Body by Eric Gunther, creative director of SOSO, presents an interactive installation centered on a twelve-foot wooden bench, where poetry is experienced through shared vibrations resonating across bodies seated together. Breathing Room by Liam Lee transforms a mirrored infinity space into an undulating landscape of moss-inspired soft forms, offering a tactile and contemplative engagement that reconsiders the relationship between the body and its surroundings.
In GLITCHE, Boston-based transdisciplinary collective MASARY Studios translates the concept of a glitch, an unexpected malfunction in a system, into an immersive installation of animation, sound, light, and sculpture. Playing on the technique of datamoshing, in which multiple frames of pixels smear and collide, the work offers an embodied experience of how memory, error, and technological fragmentation shape perception, inhabiting the delicate intersection of visceral intensity and tender rapture.
Moving into WHISPER, audiences encounter works that combine delicate design with sensory engagement. Petal Collection by Hannah Bigeleisen uses rich materials to express inner emotions and explores how repetition can evoke softness in a material as solid as cement, while Fortune Chair by JUMBO entices playful interaction with chair installations designed in the form of smiles. This stage turns participants into co-creators, blending their voices and whispers into a multi-sensory environment that engages sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Within this stage, WHISPER: Salon introduces reSOUND’s new group exhibition format, presenting 34 works by seven emerging Korean artists based in New York: Herok, Hwichan Ko, Nayoun Ryu, Phoebe Kalm Choi, Sangho Han, Siha Park, and Yeonji Chung. Working in painting and object-based practice, the salon creates an environment where distinct artistic voices exist in proximity, continuously reshaped by adjacency, intimacy, and dialogue.
FLOW unfolds through d’strict’s expanding artistic language across large-scale digital environments. FLOW: Thereafter: A Misinterpretation Performance reframes art history through imagination and sensory freedom, while Art Performance, Ocean, and Whale together visualize connection, natural force, and boundless possibility.
INTO INFINITY culminates with the endless movement from the interactive lighting sculpture Spiraling into Infinity II, a collaboration between Children of the Light and Alexander Whitley Dance Company. Here, an exquisitely crafted sequence of light interactions of various speeds, shapes, colors, and intensities offer the audience an otherworldly immersion into the infinite that stretches beyond time and space.
The final stage, FATHOMS, presents Icelandic artist SHOPLIFTER’s (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir) hypernatural forest of cascading synthetic forms. Taking its name from the Icelandic word faðmur, meaning both a unit of depth measured by the body and the act of holding someone close, the work invites touch, movement, and emotional immersion. To move through Fathoms is to hold, and to be held in return.
Established in 2004, d'strict is a leading digital design and art company based in South Korea. Over the past two decades, d'strict has pioneered captivating digital experiences within physical spaces by merging visual creativity with media technology, building upon longstanding digital craftsmanship and cutting-edge innovation. By continually introducing user-centric, visually captivating content, d'strict has expanded the possibilities of digital media. In an effort to further its cultural and artistic impact, d'strict introduced the d'strict Art Project in 2024. This new platform seeks to broaden d'strict‘s cultural and artistic reach, engaging with a wider audience and forging deeper connections with the art community. In close collaboration with diverse creators both within and outside the company, the d'strict Art Project aims to push the boundaries of cultural and artistic expression and to engage with a wider audience in new ways of interpreting, remembering, and reimagining through immersive, holistic art experiences.