Imaginary Landscapes Offering Comfort and Healing: "Blues" Exhibition

Hanwon Museum of Art Opens "Blues" Exhibition
A Diverse Showcase of Painting, Drawing, and Installation
Exploring Imaginary Landscapes of the Subconscious

On May 20, the Hanwon Museum of Art announced that it will hold a solo exhibition by Jung Yumi titled "Blues" from May 29 to August 1.

Jung Yumi "Sit Facing the Cloud Waves" (2025). Hanwon Museum of Art

"Blues" presents Jung's Imaginary Landscape series, which fuses her tactile experiences and the abstraction of her subconscious, through a variety of media including painting, drawing, and installation. Having previously blended traditional techniques and spirit of East Asian painting with Western materials to break down the dichotomy between "tradition" and "modernity" and establish her own unique artistic world, Jung will use this exhibition to explore the contemporaneity of East Asian painting and reveal her own profound artistic identity within it.

The exhibition title "Blues" combines the main color of the works, blue, with the plural suffix "s" to express a range of hues, and also carries an ambivalent meaning by evoking the "sense of melody" found in the slow tempo of the traditional American music genre, blues. Rather than focusing on the genre's universal symbol of "sorrow," the exhibition emphasizes "refreshment" and "infinity," conveying a broader psychological intention.

An exhibition representative stated, "This exhibition will awaken the inner senses we have neglected in our rapidly changing modern society and provide deep comfort and healing. We hope that the works, imbued with the artist's warm perspective as she listens to a quiet dialogue with nature, will become a gentle rain that moistens our parched emotions."

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