[Exhibitions of the Week] Rosa Baba Solo Exhibition · Won Seongwon Solo Exhibition 'Stories Brought' etc.

Editor's NoteThis week's exhibitions introduce a variety of attractive shows from across the country that can be experienced over the course of one week.

▲ Seongwon Won Solo Exhibition 'Story Brought to Life' = Gallery Purple will hold a solo exhibition titled 'Story Brought to Life' by artist Seongwon Won starting from the 10th.

Fruit of Someone 149x249cm, c-print, 2023. [Photo by Gallery Purple]

The artist expresses the ambiguous boundary between reality and a virtual-like world through photographic collage work. After conceptualizing the work and selecting suitable locations, the artist visits them multiple times to take numerous photos, which are then combined to create photographic works that appear as scenes within nature.

The artist delicately captures the changing appearances of the same space depending on the season, weather, and time. Through manual work of gathering, connecting, and cutting the images taken, the artist stacks up to over 1,500 layers to create a single piece. The landscapes in the artist’s works metaphorically represent the self expressed through actual experience and the forms of life within the society we live in.

Honesty Listed, 80x120cm, c-print, 2022. [Photo by Gallery Purple]

The artist’s unreal yet unique world, created by visual elements from reality, contains numerous thoughts cast inward through interactions with the surroundings experienced in life. The exhibition gathers works reflecting the artist, offering reflections on the somewhat contrasting realities of individual life within surreal landscapes. Through this exhibition, the artist explains that after 11 years, they wanted to transparently express their current self through work about ‘me’ and ‘the me I want to be,’ providing an opportunity to show ‘me’ to ‘me.’ The exhibition runs until December 23 at Gallery Purple, Wabu-eup, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do.

▲ Rosa Baba Solo Exhibition 'Beginning What and Ending Away' = Esther Schipper Gallery Seoul presents the solo exhibition 'Beginning What and Ending Away' by Italian artist Rosa Baba.

This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Korea. She approaches the film medium through sculpture, exploring the film industry and its modes of direction through gestures, genres, information, and documents. She places importance on issues of composition, the physicality and form of shapes, and her video works created in this way exist in the space between experimental documentary and fictional narrative.

Approaching video from a sculptural perspective, the artist expresses space through film via installation works and site-specific pieces, while establishing new relationships between the work and the audience. Particularly focusing on the unique concepts and media significance of film, she broadly surveys film history and industry, as well as realistic acting, genres, information, and documents within films.

The artist concentrates on the landscapes of scenes and human interventions in the environment, exploring the relationships among historical records, personal anecdotes, and cinematic expression to create spaces of memory and uncertainty. The exhibition will feature new works created for the solo show, including the film installation “Radiant Exposures ? Facts Run on Light Beams These Days” (2022). The exhibition runs until December 21 at Esther Schipper Gallery Seoul, Noksapyeong-daero, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

Inspiration 90x72cm Colored on silk 2022 [Photo provided by Seochon TYA]

▲ Yeo-gyeong Yoon Solo Exhibition 'Everyday, Moments That Are Still but Not Stopped' = Seochon TYA presents the solo exhibition 'Everyday, Moments That Are Still but Not Stopped' by artist Yeo-gyeong Yoon. After majoring in traditional Korean painting (Jinchae), the artist has been working on pieces using traditional materials on silk. She has participated in various group exhibitions such as 'Jinchae Yuhee' at Gallery Ease in 2022 and 'Revival of a Thousand-Year Tradition: Sehwa' at Gallery Hanok in 2018. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition.

The exhibition features 10 paintings capturing special moments within the ordinary daily lives of common people. The expressions of the figures in the works are restrained and quiet, but the fictional expressions and negative space around them draw viewers into the blurred expressions of the figures. The landscapes of certain villages or the backgrounds of negative space invite viewers to imagine the places where the figures reside. Distorted expressions reflected on palms, the upper body flowing like waves beneath closed eyes, multiple hands holding swollen hair, and droplets made of fur evoke emotions the figures might have passed through in the flow of time.

????????_ 72.7x60.6cm Oil on canvas 2023. [Photo by Seochon TYA]

The artist says, "The figures in the paintings are frozen in a moment, but the story does not stop, and the paintings become vessels that capture fleeting moments of everyday life. Although the figures are frozen in a flat scene, the time within the paintings flows, so I hope viewers will recall unnoticed moments of daily life through the figures in the paintings during this exhibition." The exhibition runs until the 16th at Seochon TYA, Jahamun-ro 5-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

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