Texts/Critical Texts

ENG ∣ KOR 'Encounter, Two Visions' Shin Hee Won (Gallery Doll Curator) Cho Eunjoung’s paintings are grounded in the observation of objects. Buildings appear in relation to nature, while staged figures are placed in harmony with them, forming scenes that remain within the realm of landscape. Within symbolic metaphors, objects create narratives through the artist’s subjective gaze, as if a nov..

ENG ∣ KOR It is everywhere Shin Hee Won (Gallery Doll Curator) A work of art always leaves something behind. What appears concrete gradually becomes ambiguous, for it is ultimately a result of individual thought rather than a fixed substance. In the course of lived reality, there are moments when precise memories disappear, leading us toward other thoughts. Living in a present that cannot be ..

ENG ∣KOR Unfamiliarly Glittering Kim Jeong-dae, Director of INDIPRESS Mystery seems to arise when one encounters a situation that is unfamiliar and previously unexperienced, and when that moment becomes linked to the perceiver’s ideal conception. It may also be understood as a pleasurable tremor that occurs when the imagination expands and becomes aware of a reality beyond prediction. Such a ..

ENG ｜ KOR The Desire to Communicate in an Age Incapable of It Ahn, Kyoosik (director of Kim Tschang-Yeul Art Museum) The anxiety of contemporary people is amplifying beyond the individual level to the social dimensions, even though we are in an unprecedented era in which unknown knowledge is verified with the help of cutting-edge scientific theory and technology, and the undeveloped land is ..

ENG ∣ KOR Dual Conditions of Human Existence Lee Seon-young (art critic) Cho Eun-joung’s solo exhibition “Balance Point” negotiates the borders between the conscious and subconscious, reality and fantasy, reason and desire, the Self and the Other. In broad terms, balance connotes a middle ground between contrasting sides; the border is where balance is achieved. Using a characteristically ..