Perigee Gallery presents a solo exhibition 《Mirror Corridor》 by artist Jang Jongwan, on view through April 25. Jang Jongwan has steadily depicted landscapes of what appears to be an ideal natural world and the ecosystem that exists within it. Current exhibition, 《Mirror Corridor》 shows another direction in his work while not departing from the trajectory he has been pursuing thus far.

This work folds and unfolds like a decalcomania, forming a singular terrain. Rather than representing an actual time and space, it constructs a virtual world that maintains its balance through repetition and replication.

Although it does not follow a clear narrative structure, the work—reminiscent of the world-building found in fantasy novels or films—is recreated on the basis of elements drawn from reality. In this sense, Jang’s painting can be understood as a unified spatiotemporal realm in which reality and the virtual originate from one another, like mirrored images in a decalcomania.

The world the artist imagines is not a distant realm separated from us, but one that exists in close proximity. It can be understood as a space shaped by the possibility that accumulated choices might have unfolded differently, or by an imagining of the starting point of a new society. Imagination, as a virtual spatiotemporal realm imbued with the artist’s life and aspirations for the future, leads to the question of what his paintings ultimately seek to reveal.

In this exhibition, the structural composition of both the works and the display itself is particularly pronounced. Works produced in pairs under identical titles are symmetrically installed on either side of a central vanishing point, transforming the gallery into a corridor of mirrored balance. These symmetrical landscapes appear like valleys or waterfalls whose depths cannot be measured, where heterogeneous elements converge to create a serene and majestic atmosphere.

Such stillness is made possible precisely because it belongs to a virtual spatiotemporal realm; at the same time, the anxieties of reality surface as a longing for balance and harmony. This is not a form of escapism into fantasy, but rather an attitude that seeks to confront reality and the virtual simultaneously.

Another key structural element is the vanishing point. The vanishing point functions as a site that prompts a renewed awareness of one’s position in the “here and now,” while simultaneously evoking the very experience of passing through that perceptual process. The world beyond the vanishing point ultimately reconnects with the reality in which we live, forming a structure that reflects the virtual and the real back onto one another—much like the exhibition’s title, ‘Mirror.’

《Mirror Corridor》 establishes a cyclical structure in which one moves from reality to the virtual and then returns once again to reality through the interplay of bilateral symmetry and the vanishing point. In this return, reality is no longer perceived as the same as before, but as a newly recognized and transformed reality.

“Mirror Corridor”
2026.03.06 - 2026.04.25
Mon-Sat 10:30 am – 6:00 pm
Perigee Gallery
18, Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea