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Artist Yi Young Uk: A World of Uncanny Sensations Through Repetitive Imagery
Yi Young Uk (b. 1991) explores how the form of repetition functions effectively in contemporary contexts. For instance, he experiments with various organic expressions that break away from rigid formal frameworks—such as creating patterns through the repetition of realistically rendered images, deconstructing forms, or translating them from two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures.
2025.07.14
Exhibitions
“Disturbed Pleasure” on View Through June 24, 2026, at WWNN
WWNN presents the group exhibition 《Disturbed Pleasure》, on view through June 24. Human responses to unsettling scenes rarely resolve into a single emotion. Fear often becomes entangled with curiosity, while attraction and aversion coexist in a state of ambivalence. The gaze lingers, unable to withdraw easily, and judgment is momentarily suspended.
2026.06.16
Exhibitions
《report》, 2017.11.10 - 2017.12.23, Gallery Purple
Kim Taedong captures in his photographs the taut tension generated by the collision between hidden narratives beneath urban history and the visible images of the city. Through his lens, he presents the suspended urban spaces and figures of the metropolis at dawn (‘Day Break’, 2011–), the peculiar urban tones of Seoul’s peripheries
2017.11.08
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《Walk in the Sun》, 2019.10.23 – 2019.11.30, SONGEUN
From October 23 to November 30, SONGEUN presents Walk in the Sun, a solo exhibition by Sejin Kim, the Grand Prize winner of the 16th SONGEUN Art Award. Kim has focused her practice on the lives of individuals embedded within broader and smaller scales of history, rendering these narratives in a synesthetic manner through cinematic and documentary techniques, layered sound, and distinctive video installations that cross formal boundaries.
2019.10.20
Articles
[Critique] Cho Duck Hyun: Archaeology of Memory
The keyword of Cho Duck Hyun’s work is “memory.” He has consistently undertaken the task of transferring old black-and-white photographs onto canvas or hanji. Using pencil, charcoal, and conté, he meticulously “reproduces” photographs as paintings. Since he mainly works with portrait photographs, standing before these images often produces a moment of astonishment: are they paintings that resemble photographs, or photographs that resemble paintings? They are what might be called “photo paintings.”
2021
Articles
[Critique] Kim Beom: Do Not Think at All
From portraits without pictures to predatory prey, the South Korean artist’s idionsyncratic work delights in upending established orders and power dynamics
2023
