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Artist Jungin Kim’s ‘Open Paintings’: Imagining Through Landscapes of Fragmented Memories
Jungin Kim (b. 1991) has been creating what he calls “open paintings,” in which seemingly unrelated fragments of memory are placed together on a single canvas, prompting viewers to lose their way within the work and imagine their own stories. These fragments of memory, akin to pixels, are regarded as individuals; through the process of grafting them onto the canvas, an image of “solidarity” emerges.
2025.11.03
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Artist Sangha Khym: Reconstructing Forgotten Memories and Invisible Time
Sangha Khym (b. 1999) collects fragments of vanished or restricted sites, lost media, and forgotten memories, pursuing a practice that reconstructs invisible time. Working across photography, video, publishing, and installation, the artist reveals in layered ways the processes through which memory fades and is reconstituted.
2026.01.19
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Artist Eunsae Lee’s Paintings: Everyday Moments That Disrupt the Rigid and Fixed
Eunsae Lee (b. 1987) captures moments of unstable change encountered through the internet, media, and everyday life. She expresses subtle undercurrents flowing through ordinary scenes in her paintings or collects various frustrations from daily life along with the rebellious imaginations they provoke, recording them as images.
2025.02.25
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[Critique] Opening the 'Adult Fairy Tale' through Imagination
Hyunsun Jeon’s paintings resemble fairy tale books with no text. Within them, exotic spaces and unfamiliar past times tumble about in a state of indefinable vagueness. These works are populated with grandmothers, girls, wolves, rabbits, wild boars—scenes filled with ambiguous incidents unfolding between humans and animals. The characters living in the time-space of a fairy tale continuously send and receive unspoken messages, forging their roles through mutual exchange.
2012.05.01
Exhibitions
《Garden》, 2018.11.22 – 2018.12.22, One and J. Gallery
One and J. Gallery will present Kang Seung Lee’s solo exhibition, 《Garden》, opening on Thursday, November 22. In this exhibition, Kang Seung Lee will showcase drawings, installations, and video works that honor and document the lives of Derek Jarman (1942–1994) and Oh Joonsoo
2018.11.20
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《Among the Trees》, 2020.03.04 – 2020.10.31, Hayward Gallery, London
Myoung Ho Lee’s ‘Tree’ series is presented in 《Among the Trees》 ‘at Hayward Gallery in London. Organized by Ralph Rugoff, the director of Hayward Gallery, this exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The show was open to the public in March, but it was temporarily suspended due to the aftermath of COVID before reopening on Aug 1st.
2020.08.12
