“Calling” Installation view at Gallery BHAK ©Gallery BHAKFrom October 12 to November 11, Gallery BHAK will present Calling, a solo exhibition by Kim Se-joong (b. 1977).
Kim has been painting ancient statues in a hyper-realistic manner, placing them in natural environments unrelated to their original context. Alongside his paintings of ancient statues, Kim has been working with small stones on the beach, and this exhibition will focus on a series of these stones.
The artist considers the stones to be his alter ego and forms a horizontal relationship with them. He travels to various beaches, observing and collecting stones on rainy or stormy days.
For him, stones also become a point of contact between finite humans and infinite nature. In this exhibition, the artist continues his exploration through realistic paintings featuring stones as protagonists, installations of actual stones, and video works.
