“The Embodied Spirit” Installation view at White Cube Seoul ©White CubeWhite Cube Seoul is pleased to announce the opening exhibition The Embodied Spirit from September 5 to December 21. White Cube opened in London in 1993 and has since expanded to New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and other locations around the world, and Seoul is the gallery’s second opening in Asia after Hong Kong. The exhibition brings together paintings and sculptures that explore philosophy, metaphysics, and the motivations behind human behavior. It features works by seven artists, Christine Ay Tjoe, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Tracey Emin, Katharina Fritsch, Louise Giovanelli, Marguerite Humeau, and Lee Jinju.
Looking at some of the works and artists, Tracey Emin’s paintings and drawings, also known as Young British Artists(yBAs), feature ghostly-looking figures, some lying on a sarcophagus-shaped crib, seemingly floating between life and death.
< Hand > (2020), a black hand resting on a plinth, is a work by Katharina Fritsch. Katharina Fritsch transformed familiar objects and figures into strangeness, raising questions about human existence.
In Berlinde De Bruyckere’s < Arcangelo Glass Dome II > (2021-23), the artist seeks to materialize human fragility by wrapping fur around a hybrid body. Lee Jinju, the only Korean artist in the exhibition, presents a series of ‘My Black Paintings’ featuring delicate hands depicted using Korean painting techniques.
