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[Critique] A Fan of Ruins
Eugene Jung is a person who likes ruins. She repeatedly collects images of ruins and reproduces them with her own hands. She even uses a sort of wit while creating the shape of hopelessness and frustration.
2022
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Artist Hyojoo Jang: On Tactility in the Digital Age
Hyojoo Jang (b. 1988) explores the sensory differences felt between the inside and outside of boundaries through the physical form of sculpture. Focusing on the gap between the fictitious entities of the digital age and tangible reality, she visualizes a sense of tactility that is “visible yet untouchable” through the conjunction and juxtaposition of diverse materials.
2025.08.04
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Artist Jongwan Jang’s Surreal Paintings: On the Faith and Anxiety Toward Utopia
Jongwan Jang (b. 1983) reassembles and anthropomorphizes images of nature collected from various media to create surreal landscapes and scenes. Resembling fairy tales, fables, or meticulously rendered religious paintings, his works feel surreal yet prompt reflection on the ways we believe, our psychological states, and the values we hold in our everyday reality.
2025.07.21
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[Review] Yangachi - Night of Burning Bone and Skin (Hakgojae Gallery 2014.06.20~08.10)
Five years after 《Middle Corea》, a project addressing political and social issues in Korea, Yangachi returns with a solo exhibition titled 《Night of Burning Bone and Skin》. While the earlier exhibition had a somewhat hopeful ending—destroying old systems and criticizing the present to envision a new world—this new exhibition, though retaining a critical perspective on society, seems devoid of hope.
2014.06.20
Exhibitions
《When Two Galaxies Merge,》, 2017.09.08 – 2017.11.22, Atelier Hermès
The exhibition 《When Two Galaxies Merge,》 by Yangachi (b. 1970) centers on the moment when things that cannot meet—or things that are inevitably bound to meet—collide. Yangachi likens this moment, when the impossible meets the inevitable, to “the moment love begins,” or to “an uncertain sign” of some event that will take place in the future.
2017.09.01
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Artist Lee Gapchul Draws Out the Korean Sentiment and the Unconscious Through the Camera
Lee Gapchul (b. 1959) began his career as a documentary photographer and recently gained prominence in the contemporary art field for works that confuse the boundary between the real and the unseen. Photography serves as a medium to draw out the deeply embedded unconsciousness of the mind and to portray the Korean peninsula—its landforms and countryside, its agrarian and folk cultures—as the site of profound spiritual and emotional presences.
2024.08.27
Exhibitions
《Cosmetic Girls》, 2008.11.28 – 2009.01.23, Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery presents the exhibition 《Cosmetic Girls》 by photographer Heinkuhn Oh.
Since his ‘Ajumma’ series in 1999, Oh has continuously explored and visualized specific social groups and classes within Korean society. In the late 1990s, his series ‘Ajumma’ captured the anxious gaze of middle-aged
2008.11.28
