Pipe Gallery presents a group exhibition 《2025 Tic Tac Toe: Elsewhere》 on view through January 3, 2026. ‘Tic Tac Toe’ is a long-term program dedicated to introducing emerging artists, through which the gallery has continuously highlighted new trajectories in contemporary visual practice.

This edition of 《2025 Tic Tac Toe: Elsewhere》 presents the work of Sean Crowley, Sonahn Lee, and Yuyun Hwang, developing its subtitle “Elsewhere” as a point of departure. The exhibition considers how familiar spaces are transformed through emotion, memory, and perception, and how such shifts open the possibility of new worlds emerging in their interstices.

It also invites us to reconsider the ways we have habitually understood place—how objects occupy their positions, how distances accrue within a landscape, and how relations are arranged—and to attend closely to the moments in which these boundaries loosen and become newly permeable.

Sean Crowley (b.1990) develops a painterly environment shaped by the themes of imagination, play, and architecture, eliciting a sensibility that is at once familiar and subtly transcendent. He notes that emotional experience can define a sense of place more powerfully than geographic coordinates. With a playful yet contemplative disposition, Crowley investigates how objects and landscapes emerge in perception—how they approach the viewer, take form, and enter into relation with one another.


Sonahn Lee (b. 1996) foregrounds the instability inherent in the act of seeing, prompting reflection on how perception is never fixed but continually subject to subtle shifts and reorientations. Reflected images, softened contours, and the repeated gestures of erasing and covering introduce a thin interval between scene and gaze, allowing familiar landscapes to be received anew as if estranged. 

Yuyun Hwang (b. 1999) begins from a desire to trace the continuance of objects. Rather than possessing things fully or fixing them into stable representations, he approaches them as provisional forms that reemerge fluidly within the currents of time and memory. For Hwang, the essence of an object is not a fixed entity grasped at once but a form that continually opens onto other possibilities as time unfolds. This mode of thinking shifts the pictorial surface into a sensorial site that is momentarily generated—an Elsewhere. 

Participating Artists: Sean Crowley, Yuyun Hwang, Sonahn Lee

“2025 Tic Tac Toe: Elsewhere”
2025.12.12 - 2026.01.03
Tue-Sat 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Pipe Gallery
2F – 3F 21, Daesagwan-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea