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Exhibitions
《Will you Marry Me?》, 2025.02.15 – 2025.03.23, Subtitled NYC (New York)
Shapes that once suggested familiar forms are cut, flattened, and stitched, only to reemerge as something unexpected—uncanny, even: a dog’s muzzle, a gummy bear, or a face caught in either a smile or a gasp. In her latest series, Unpleasant Episodes, Kai Oh weaves together humor, defiance, and—crucially—her own breasts and nipples.
2025.02.10
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Artist Dahoon Nam’s Art of Replication: Humor and Satire on Contemporary Society
Dahoon Nam (b. 1995) has pursued a practice that reinterprets a wide range of media through his own perspective, using replication as a primary method—from small and large Styrofoam fragments to computer graphics. By recreating phenomena and objects close to our everyday lives with lightweight materials such as Styrofoam, cardboard boxes, and paper, the artist conveys the structural contradictions of contemporary society in a humorous manner.
2026.01.05
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[Critique] A New Echo Created by Thickness
Around 2020, Chung's paintings transformed into reliefs with volume and materiality. It should be noted that this change occurred during the global pandemic, when most people had to communicate only through mediated images in their homes.
2023
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[Critique] Kim Heecheon - Living amid Moving Image
When more than a century ago, Thomas Edison invented the motion picture camera and its viewer, he thought of moving images as nothing more than some insignificant flickering images, which briefly appear through a tiny hole in a coin-operated machine. But with technology transitioning from film to digital media, there has been a bewildering evolution in moving images.
2020.01.21
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[Review] Yoo Hwasoo, 《The Place of Weeds》: Certain Languages of Worlds
Yoo Hwasoo’s The Place of Weeds was structured to align with the characteristics of the transparent circular pavilion. A pair of vertically-oriented works were positioned at the center of the entrance, serving as an ambiguous gateway, while the remaining works were arranged along a horizontal axis in parallel.
2022.02.04
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Exhibitions
《Islands》, 2022.05.10 – 2022.06.18, Natalie Karg Gallery
Sunny Kim reconstructs emotions of loss and displacement into an image that blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion. In her new paintings, presented in this online exhibition, 《Islands》, classic elements of nature such as rocks, trees, and water are invoked alongside abstracted forms, such as the round fluffy organisms that permeate through her landscapes
2022.05.10
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Artist Kibong Rhee Paints a World Beyond the ‘Layer’
Known for his fog landscape paintings, Kibong Rhee (b. 1957) is one of Korea's leading mid-career artists who has been working in-depth with installations and paintings since the 1980s. He has been primarily interested in the structure and flow that constitute the essence of people, objects, and the world, and the various meanings they derive.
2024.08.06
