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Artist Soojung Jung’s Imaginary Scenes Full of Life Force
Soojung Jung (b. 1990) has been experimenting with her own distinctive language of figurative painting, rooted in her interest in the small and large events, narratives, and images that unfold around her. Her paintings, reminiscent of dreamlike scenes, present unfamiliar yet familiar moments that emerge from her imaginative interpretation of real-life events.
2025.11.10
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Artist Kim Heecheon: On Existence and Life Mediated by Digital Data
Kim Heecheon (b. 1989) explores how digital technology influences our visual and perceptual experiences in everyday life, as well as our altered sense of reality as a result. His work often engages with digital interfaces that translate physical time and space into data, such as face-swapping mobile apps, virtual reality, and Google Earth.
2025.05.26
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[Essay] The Planarity Journey in Artist Im Sunny’s Colorful Paintings
Lim Sunhee’s (b. 1975) colorful artworks may look like regular paintings that depict objects, scenery, or some sort of image. Lined Blue Ring Angelfish II (2019) resembles an aquarium filled with brilliantly colored fish, while Magritte_The Discovery of Fire (2022) seems to depict a dream in which a floating brass instrument is on fire somewhere on land where the sun sets.
2022.09.12
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Artist Chung Seoyoung Captures the ‘Sculptural Moments’ from the Objects
Playing a leading role in the establishment of “Korean Contemporary Art” as a new category of contemporary art in the 1990s, sculptor Chung Seoyoung (b. 1964) has been addressing fundamental questions concerning sculpture itself by incorporating the unrealistic gaps in the rapidly changing atmosphere of Korean society into her sculptures. In particular, the artist has garnered attention for her practice of reassembling and transforming everyday commodities found in industrialized societies, such as Styrofoam, plastic, plywood, and sponges, into a sculptural state.
2024.07.16
Exhibitions
《Abstract Walking》, 2012.03.10 – 2012.04.22, Art Sonje Center
Art Sonje Center is pleased to present Abstract Walking – Sora Kim project 2012 from March 10 to April 22, 2012. Sora Kim produces a new sound installation work Abstract Walking for the exhibition, which has no material representation; however, the work presents a vast spatial and temporal territory that encompasses diverse stories and interpretations, and invites viewers to walk in this abstract territory.
2012.03.10
