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Artist Note — Lightness (2025)
Artist Note — Lightness (2025)
2025.04.29Lightness is the first series that composes the emotional state of “lightness” into a scene. In this world, emotions are treated not as abstract sentiments but as entities with form, color, and weight. While form remains relatively stable, color, texture, and density continuously vary according to the weight of emotion. Transparent colors and elements of low density tend to float or disperse, an..
Artist Note — Balance of Mind (2019 ~ 2024)
Artist Note — Balance of Mind (2019 ~ 2024)
2025.04.29나는 내면에서 벌어지는 마음의 상태나 인간관계에서 비롯되는 불안정한 감정에 대해 심리적 균형을 이루는 지점에 관심을 가지고 있다. 내면의 불안, 고독, 분노, 우울 등의 감정으로 마음을 조절하기 힘들 때, 부정적인 감정을 다스려 마음의 균형점을 되찾을 수 있는 방법을 찾아가고 있다. 작업에서는 주로 균형의 의미를 가진 상징적 소재를 사용해 모순되거나 비논리적인 상황을 연출하고 있다. 물과 나무, 집과 문 등의 소재가 지속적으로 등장하는데, 특히 물과 나무는 아무리 기울어진 곳에 있어도 수평면을 이루는 물의 속성과 땅 위에 서있는 나무의 형태로 인해 나에게 균형의 의미를 가진 상징적 소재가 되었다. 정신적 균형과 공존을 표현하기 위해 물과 나무 또는 이것에서 파생된 소재로 화면을 구성하였다. 이렇게 만들어..
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) In the paintings of Cho Eun Joung, objects emerge within scenes anchored in nature, interwoven with architectural elements and figures. Through symbolic metaphors, these objects narrate stories that unfold like a novel, crafted from the artist’s subjective perspective. Rather than blending discordantly, they harmonize with..
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) Art always leaves something behind. It may seem tangible, yet its essence remains elusive—an outcome shaped by personal thought, becoming increasingly ambiguous over time. In the fleeting moments of reality, memories fade, leading us to reinterpret our experiences. In this ever-evolving present, contemporary art invites us to engag..
Exhibition Text — Unfamiliary Glittering, 2022
Exhibition Text — Unfamiliary Glittering, 2022
2023.01.12ENG ∣KOR Unfamiliary Glittering Kim Jeong-dae (CEO of INDIPRESS) Mystery seems to arise when we confront unfamiliar and unexperienced situations—moments that resonate with our own idealized perceptions. It is that thrilling sensation, a fusion of wonder and excitement, that emerges when our imagination expands beyond prediction and into the awareness of an unforeseen reality. This sense of mys..
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 mu..