Exit Wound portrays the carnage left by a gunshot as landscape, with the flesh splintering and twining into horizon lines. Photographed by Kyle Tata. Courtesy of artist and 839.

In 1967, philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault delivered a seminal lecture outlining the concept of heterotopia. In Foucault’s view, a heterotopia is a “place without a place,” a space in which societal norms are both distorted and distilled, both reflected and transgressed. Among these heterotopias, Foucault named prisons, brothels, bars, cinemas, colonies and ships. Nearly half a century later, the artist Yunghun Yoo identified yet another heterotopia: the discursive Southern California transportation system.

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Anyone who has ever had the fortune and the fortitude to travel Southern California by way of train will recognize—if only temporally—the heterotopia that Yoo encircles within his recently closed solo exhibition, “Union Station.” With gestural........

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