Installation view of 《Transient》 © Pipe Gallery
Pipe Gallery presents 《Transient》, a
two-person exhibition by Myungchan Kim (b.1992) and Sojeong Yang (b.1979), on
view through July 1.
Meaning “temporary” or “briefly lingering,” the exhibition title
emerges from the artists’ shared attention to unstable forms, fleeting
sensations, and traces of vanishing presence.
Yet the act of “holding” proposed here is far removed from any
desire for permanent preservation. Rather, it allows transient forms and
sensations on the verge of disappearance a provisional place to remain,
attending to the brief interval that passes between emergence and dissolution.
Installation view of 《Transient》 © Pipe Gallery
Painting has long been understood as a medium that arrests time
through the hardening of pigment and the fixation of surface. Images appear
detached from temporal flow, remaining as if suspended in a single fixed
moment.
In the works of Myungchan Kim and Sojeong Yang, however,
painting moves in the opposite direction.
Installation view of 《Transient》 © Pipe Gallery
For both artists, painting is not a means of permanently
possessing or stabilizing something, but a provisional site that renders
perceptible the fleeting interval between disappearance and formation.
Through processes of slowness, sustained attention, hesitation,
and capture, their works allow unstable forms and traces to linger momentarily,
functioning as spaces that temporarily hold the contours of what is fading
away.
