Installation view of 《Fantasma: Restless Silence》 © ARARIO GALLERY
ARARIO GALLERY is presenting two concurrent
solo exhibitions at its Seoul space through August 15: 《Fantasma: Restless Silence》 by Lee Jihyun
(b. 1979) and 《Last Night's Golden Dragon Mirage》 by LIM Subeom (b. 1997).
LEE Jihyun reconstructs images of
remembered places through the language of painting. Marking her first solo
exhibition in Korea in four years, the exhibition highlights the distinctive
painterly world she has developed through layering and reinterpreting scenes drawn
from both history and everyday life.
Across the first, third, and fourth floors
of ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, the exhibition presents works that translate the
materiality of memory—spanning mythic records to ordinary recollections—into
painterly form.
Installation view of 《Last Night’s Golden Dragon Mirage》 © ARARIO GALLERY
Meanwhile, 《Last
Night's Golden Dragon Mirage》 marks LIM Subeom's first
solo exhibition at ARARIO GALLERY. The exhibition features paintings and
ceramics exploring unknown realms beyond human language or perception, and
their unnamed inhabitants.
Presented on the basement level, the
exhibition questions our gaze toward the ”other.“ LIM highlights the human
tendency to polarize the ”stranger“, those who breach the boundary between ”I“
and ”we“, as either a sacred ”god“ or a twisted ”monster.“ In doing so, he
asks: ”Can we truly draw a clear distinction between the two?“
By dissolving the hierarchy between
divinity and monstrosity, the exhibition transcends dichotomies, inviting
viewers to rethink the unfamiliar and forge connections on an entirely new
dimension.
