Installation view of 《Dirty Silky Jewel》 ©KICHE
KICHE presents a two-person exhibition 《Dirty Silky Jewel》, by Jang Pa and Hyekyung
Choi, on view through January 17, 2026.
The central keyword of this exhibition 《Dirty Silky Jewel》, conceived and curated at
the proposal of artist Jang Pa, is “ornament.” 《Dirty
Silky Jewel》 brings together Jang Pa and Hyekyung Choi,
each exploring excess, affect, and the expanded possibilities of ornament
through distinct approaches. The show proposes ornament not as surface
embellishment but as an aesthetic method capable of unsettling sensory
hierarchies and structuring emotional experience.
Installation view of 《Dirty Silky Jewel》 ©KICHE
Jang Pa combines abject elements and
grotesque imagery centered on the female body with flamboyant, intense colors,
while Hyekyung Choi captures sensory depth and flow through circular forms,
undulating curves, pastel tones, and scattering particles. Excessive color,
soft structures, and fragmented bodies and emotions are no longer presented as
mere “effects,” but as performative acts that reconfigure social conditions and
the order of the senses.
Installation view of 《Dirty Silky Jewel》 ©KICHE
《Dirty Silky Jewel》 considers the coexistence of painting and form, corporeality and
affect, violence and flow, exploring the expanded meanings and critical
possibilities of ornament. Ornament here is not a peripheral aesthetic or a
decorative flourish, but a critical structure linking sensation, politics,
affect and form.
Within Western modernist aesthetics,
ornament has often been coded as feminine, trivial, or decorative, and in
painting, it has been relegated to background, excess or marginal sensory
detail. Dirty Silky Jewel pushes back against this history of marginalization.
