Installation view of 《sub, text》 ©Hakgojae Gallery
Hakgojae Gallery presents a solo exhibition
《sub, text》 by artist KIM Eun
Jeong, on view through November 8. This marks her second solo exhibition at the
gallery featuring more than 40 paintings.
KIM Eun Jeong explores the subtle threshold
that can neither be fully articulated in language nor completely captured in
image. She has developed a unique visual vocabulary that embodies sensation and
thought, imagination and emotion through the medium of painting. Her works are
not reduced to fixed forms or a single narrative. Instead, they reveal the very
process of layering and unfolding over time.
The exhibition highlights these processes,
exploring how the space between language and sensation and reality and
imagination can be perceived and reflected upon.
Installation view of
《sub, text》 ©Hakgojae
GalleryHer work dwells in the spaces between the
“drawn” and the “undrawn”, inside and outside the frame, and between language
and image. KIM turns her gaze toward these intervals, where visual narrative
and conceptual reflection converge. Rather than presenting a single subject or
definitive story, she highlights the gaps, pauses, and uncertainties embedded
in her work. Tracing these gaps, viewers encounter the conditions of perception
and existence—layers where change and continuity, reality and imagination
intersect.
In the end, 《sub,
text》 is both “speaking through painting” and a pursuit
of the “painting beyond words.” It recalls the fundamental challenges
contemporary painting continues to face, and in doing so, expands the horizon
of its pictorial language.
