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Kwanwoo Park’s Art as “Event”: On the Human as “Phenomenon”
Kwanwoo Park (b. 1990) approaches the human being as a “phenomenon,” addressing in his practice issues such as consciousness and self-consciousness through perception, the tension between reality and fiction as mediated by “belief,” as well as questions of migration and identity.
2025.09.15
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Artist Sejin Hong: Exploring the Space Between Perception and Reality
Sejin Hong (b. 1992) begins her work by examining how perception is newly constructed through technology and the environment within her own experiences. Having lost her hearing as a child and lived with a cochlear implant as a prosthetic device, she has continued to create paintings that fill the gaps of missing information between the real world and herself with new sculptures or forms.
2025.11.03
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[Critique] Memo on Lee Eun-sil and Her Works
Lee Eun-sil (born in1983) and her works were first encountered at the 2006 Graduation Exhibition of Seoul National University. Her looks with a bodyline so voluptuous and thick wavy hair looked as if she were a college student of Ewha Womans University in the 1980s.
2008
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[Critique] Photography Is Photography As Photography Is
Appreciating a photograph and appreciating a painting may appear similar, yet they are fundamentally different acts. The only thing they share is the attempt to reproduce a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface; beyond that, their mechanisms of representation are entirely distinct.
2016.09.17
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Artist Meekyoung Shin Translates Culture With Soap
Meekyoung Shin (b. 1967) has been working between London and Seoul, using "soap" instead of traditional sculptural materials to recreate historical artifacts and artworks that represent specific cultures from a contemporary perspective.
2024.09.17
Exhibitions
《Intimate Sisters》, 2022.08.29 – 2022.09.30, Duson Gallery
Yeesookyung’s work gathers discarded and wounded things to resurrect them as new beings, presenting fragments of life related to wounds and healing. By dismantling traditional forms and rebirthing them through a contemporary sculptural language, her work offers a visual meeting point between tradition and modernity.
2022.08.29
