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[Critique] Objects that Coldly Touch the Heart
Sejin Hong is an artist who paints the sensory experience of traversing between the material and immaterial, the real and the virtual. Drawing from her own experiences, she edits and reprocesses the subjectivity of auditory perception into visual outcomes. Through this process, she translates information accumulated through perception into phenomena that cannot otherwise be experienced, manifesting them on canvas and within space. She fills the blank spaces of auditory perception with images of simple shapes, lines, concrete spaces, and planes.
2021.09.20
Activities
Hannah Woo Selected as the Inaugural Recipient of the Frieze Seoul Artist Award
Frieze Seoul announced on the 20th that Korean artist Hannah Woo (35) has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Frieze Seoul Artist Award. This year’s Artist Award provides emerging artists with the opportunity to showcase their work for the first time at Frieze Seoul. The award is sponsored by luxury brand Bulgari.
2023.06.20
Activities
Street Art Colors Hongdae – KCC and Artist Chu Mirim Present ‘Art on the Streets’
Street art (ground murals) in Hongdae is captivating the eyes of both local and international visitors. KCC Paint, a global leader in applied materials and chemical solutions, has collaborated with Chu Mirim, an artist renowned for her large-scale projects both in Korea and abroad, to present "Art on the Streets" in Hongdae.
2024.11.04
Exhibitions
《Seoul Arts & Tech Festival Unfold X 2024》, 2024.11.07 – 2024.11.20, Culture Station Seoul 284
《Seoul Arts & Tech Festival Unfold X 2024 ― 2084: A Space Odyssey》 reimagines our present era from an archaeological perspective, setting its gaze on the near future year of 2084. In a new space-time created by technology, the exhibition traces how boundaries between past, present, and future blur—stretching from microscopic ecosystems to the cosmic level.
2024.11.06
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[Column] What Did the Artist Intend with the Empty Canvas?
Under a gray sky stretches a mudflat, backed by a field of reeds. Amid the dull mixture of brown and green reeds, a white canvas suddenly stands upright, dreamlike. What lies behind this canvas? Behind it is a single tree — but that cannot be the only answer. There might be a person, or nothing at all, or perhaps just another fragment of the reed field.
2018.12.19
