Curated by Kim Sung Won
Artists today have moved beyond mere representation to propose actual ways of being in the world. In this context, art is seen as a collaborative engagement with the experience of life as a whole. This exhibition consists of recent works by five Korean artists, Chung Seo-young, Back Seung-woo, Han Myung-ok and Park Ji-hye. These artists create unique spaces where the constant and the ephemeral, grand discourses and humble musings, negation and affirmation, come together.
Each have their own individual way of working, but collectively they offer a range of possibilities of interacting with the world. As observers, we can enter their private art-worlds and empathise with the emotional and cerebral processes that have created them. We must, however, be prepared to have our fixed notions about ‘what is art’ shattered. As T.S. Eliot put it, “Only the genuinely new can ever be truly traditional.” The work of these artists can be seen as attempts to generate new aesthetic values and to establish a ‘tradition of the future’ as a meaningful proposition.
Artists:
Back Seung-woo
Chung Seo-young
Han Myung-ok
Park Ji-hyeHan Myung-ok
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