Garage Gallery, Doha, Qatar
2026. 2. 5. – 4. 20.
Solo exhibition assembles a number of significant works made throughout Chung Seoyoung's career, tracing the evolution of her artistic language as it intersects with her lived experiences and collective memories
2026. 2. 5. (Thu) 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Moderator: Harry C. Choi
Speaker: Hoor Al Qasimi
Fire Station: Artist in Residence is pleased to announce Chung Seoyoung: Endless Facts, the first Middle Eastern solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Chung Seoyoung, opening on February 5, 2026, in Doha, Qatar. The exhibition marks the inauguration of a long-term artistic vision, launched in conjunction with the debut of Art Basel Qatar.
Chung Seoyoung: Endless Facts brings together key works that trace more than three decades of the artist’s practice, alongside newly commissioned pieces. Centred on the Garage Gallery, the exhibition explores the layered relationships between objects, collective memory, and lived experience through sculptural compositions that precisely arrange everyday and industrial materials. In particular, the new work Endless Facts, which shares its title with the exhibition, has been specially commissioned for Fire Station. Drawing inspiration from rope—a material deeply rooted in Doha’s local traditions—the work translates this reference into a sculptural language that foregrounds the temporal and structural qualities embedded in objects. In doing so, it invites viewers to move beyond rapid image consumption and into a mode of attentive looking and sustained reflection.
국제적으로 주목받는 작가 정서영의 중동 첫 개인전 《정서영: Endless Facts》가 2026년 2월 5일, 카타르 도하의 파이어 스테이션에서 막을 올립니다. 이번 전시는 아트 바젤 카타르의 첫 회 출범과 함께 개막합니다. 또한 와엘 샤키가 파이어 스테이션의 예술감독으로 부임하며 새롭게 제시한 비전을 바탕으로 처음 선보이는 프로젝트로서, 장기적인 예술 담론과 국제적 협업의 연속성 위에서 기획된 프로젝트의 첫 서막입니다.
《정서영: Endless Facts》는 30여 년에 걸친 작가의 작업 세계를 조망하는 주요 작품들과 함께 신작을 선보입니다. Garage Gallery를 중심으로 펼쳐지는 이번 전시는 일상적·산업적 재료를 정교하게 배치한 조형을 통해 사물과 집단적 기억, 그리고 삶의 경험 사이에 존재하는 다층적 관계를 탐구합니다. 특히 전시와 동명의 신작 Endless Facts는 파이어 스테이션을 위해 특별히 제작된 작품으로, 도하의 전통적인 재료인 밧줄에서 영감을 받아 이를 조각적 언어로 전환함으로써 사물에 내재된 시간과 구조를 새롭게 조명하고, 관객을 빠른 이미지 소비를 넘어 집중과 사유의 감상 경험으로 이끕니다.
Image credit: Chung Seoyoung, artist portrait. Courtesy of the artist.
For over three decades, Chung Seoyoung (b. 1964) has explored the multifaceted potential of object and language through sculpture, installation, drawing, sound, performance, and video. Emerging in the mid-1990s, during which South Korea experienced rapid political, social, and cultural transformations, the artist introduced fresh possibilities for the medium of sculpture that played a pivotal role in the formation of contemporary art in the nation.
Endless Facts, Chung’s first solo exhibition in the Middle East, assembles a number of significant works made throughout her career, tracing the evolution of her artistic language as it intersects with her lived experiences and collective memories. These include Untitled (1993), a key project from her formative years which was made following her graduate studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart; There is Nothing Left to Add nor Take Away (2008), originally commissioned for the 7th Gwangju Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor; and a new site-specific installation, Endless Facts (2025-2026), produced in situ for the Fire Station. Together, they speak to Chung’s continued exploration of the “sculptural moment”—an unexpected instance in which the artist’s slow, sustained arrangements of commonplace materials and industrial objects cohere into a singular work of art.
The exhibition’s title, Endless Facts, reveals the layers of reality that are embedded in our everyday lives from which Chung draws inspiration. Though facts are usually thought of as unique, immutable statements, the artist suggests that they exist in concatenations that are uncovered continuously upon detailed and careful observations. Such thinking is reflected in the open-ended layout of Chung’s sculptures at the Fire Station, designed to reveal surprising systems of relations through the deliberate placement of works next to one another. By constructing a sculptural landscape that transfigures the ordinary upon close looking, Chung sheds light on the intricate complexities of daily surroundings and speaks to a human experience that transcends cultural and geographical specificities.
Harry C. H. Choi
https://firestation.org.qa/en/calendar/exhibition-chung-seoyoung-endless-facts/


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