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Artist Note — Orbit (2026)
Artist Note — Orbit (2026)
2026.08.06ENG ｜ KOR The Orbit Series explores the nature of inner balance and the conditions under which it can emerge. Here, inner balance is understood as a condition sustained by an appropriate distance. It takes shape when distinct presences remain in relation without breaching one another’s boundaries. The intervals between them are not merely physical gaps, but the minimum conditions that allow e..
Exhibition Text — Orbit, 2026
Exhibition Text — Orbit, 2026
2026.08.06ENG ∣ KOR ‘Otbit’ Shin Hee Won (Gallery Doll Curator) Cho Eunjoung’s recent body of work, the Orbit Series, begins with a question: how does inner balance take shape, and how can it be sustained? The forms that populate her paintings are clearly delineated, yet they evoke an unfamiliar sensation that seems to extend beyond everyday reality. Poised between recognition and estrangement, they ..
Artist Note — Lightness (2025)
Artist Note — Lightness (2025)
2026.08.06ENG ｜ KOR Lightness is the first series in which the emotional state of “lightness” is constructed as a pictorial scene. Within this world, emotions are treated not as abstract sentiments but as entities possessing form, color, and weight. While form remains relatively stable, color, texture, and density shift in response to emotional weight. Transparent hues and low-density elements tend to ..
Artist Note — Balance of Mind (2019 ~ 2024)
Artist Note — Balance of Mind (2019 ~ 2024)
2025.04.29I am interested in the point at which inner balance begins to emerge amid shifting emotions, whether they arise from within or through relationships with others. When anxiety, loneliness, anger, or sadness becomes overwhelming, I explore how these emotions might be held, adjusted, and gradually brought back into balance. In my paintings, I use symbolic elements associated with balance to constru..
Exhibition Text — Encounter, Two Visions, 2024
Exhibition Text — Encounter, Two Visions, 2024
2024.11.13ENG ∣ KOR 'Encounter, Two Visions' Shin Hee Won (Gallery Doll Curator) Cho Eunjoung’s paintings are grounded in the close observation of objects. Buildings appear in relation to natural settings, while carefully staged figures are placed in alignment with their surroundings, forming scenes that remain within an expanded field of landscape. Through symbolic displacement and the artist’s subje..
Exhibition Text — It is everywhere, 2023
Exhibition Text — It is everywhere, 2023
2023.11.14ENG ∣ 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 ..
Exhibition Text — Unfamiliarly Glittering, 2022
Exhibition Text — Unfamiliarly Glittering, 2022
2023.01.12ENG ∣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 ..
Exhibition Text — The Desire to Communicate in an Age Incapable of It, 2019
Exhibition Text — The Desire to Communicate in an Age Incapable of It, 2019
2019.09.26ENG ｜ 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 ..
Critical Text — Dual Conditions of Human Existence, 2016
Critical Text — Dual Conditions of Human Existence, 2016
2019.09.13ENG ∣ 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 ..