
Yang SoonYeal: Forbidden Fruits presents burnt apples collected after a 2025 wildfire in South Korea as social sculpture — a Beuysian proposition that art can foster ecological literacy and social change. The charred fruit shifts the apple's iconographic history from biblical archetype through Cézanne and Magritte into the present ecological crisis, functioning as a site-specific archive of pyrocene trauma. Simultaneously relic of destruction and biological nutrient for future micro-ecosystems, the carbonized apples operate as both memento mori and monument — transmuting ephemeral eco-catastrophe into a haunting aesthetic object that seeks, amid the ash, the green buds of regeneration.