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Artist Moka Lee Paints the Invisible Sides of Today's Youth
Moka Lee (b.1996) paints portraits of today's youth, capturing both their brilliance and instability. Blurring the boundaries between portraiture, still life, and landscape painting, Lee’s work embraces the underlying anxieties of youth hidden beneath the vibrant images displayed on social media.
2025.04.08
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Artist Kim Yesul: Reinterpreting Communities and Places in Everyday Life
Kim Yesul (b. 1989) is interested in reinterpreting the communities and places encountered in our everyday lives, creating specific situations that allow them to be observed from the perspective of a third party. In particular, the artist focuses on the multiple narratives that emerge simultaneously in contemporary society, the layered phenomena that arise within them, and the beings excluded from society, continuing a practice that unfolds these concerns at the intersection of art and design.
2026.06.01
Exhibitions
《Mono Mansion》, 2023.07.21 – 2023.08.13, OUTHOUSE
We all live in our own houses. Each “house” takes a different form, and our ideas and meanings of home are just as varied. Whatever shape that home may assume — whatever attitude we hold within it — we all step out of it, only to return again.
2023.07.20
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《Glorious Magnificent》, 2014.07.10, Mana Contemporary Chicago
The Mana Contemporary building, like many buildings of its kind, has been through several changes. Most recently transitioning from a moving and storage company to artist’s studios and a contemporary arts center. The building itself is solid and unwieldy, brick and mortar, and towering in its place without neighboring buildings.
2014.07.09
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[Critique] Yunchul Kim: Literal Encounter of the Laminated Reality
Visualizing imperceptible matter and photonic flow, Yunchul Kim’s works make the viewers imagine the vast field of energy operating them. Needless to say, the energy is something undetectable by human senses, therefore difficult to recognize as a subject of materiality, but it’s precisely this energy that Kim seeks to materialize into a perceptible reality. His works have adhered to the extended contexts of this idea. Readers can experience for themselves this recognition of unrecognizable energy at Kim’s solo exhibition 《Glare》 (Barakat Contemporary, September 19 - November 17, 2019).
2019.10.01
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Artist Sung Hwan Kim Reimagines the Present and History Through Visual Storytelling
Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975), who works between New York and Amsterdam, has showcased a diverse range of works, incorporating various media such as film, video, drawing, music, architecture, and literature into installations, performances, radio dramas, and books.
2024.10.15
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[Critique] Journey through the Gaps: Moving Symbols of Bahc Yiso
“To me, creating artworks is like travelling upside down through the ‘gaps’ massively and endlessly spread between existing meanings and realms."
This famous quote from Bahc Yiso(1957–2004) provides a succinct definition for his oeuvre. By avoiding settling for any particular meaning, and rather choosing to reveal and open the gaps between meanings, his work suggests a different mechanism of signification.
2020
Exhibitions
《The Portrait with(out) Artists》, 2018.03.20 - 2018.05.20, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art
《The Portrait with(out) Artists》 is an exhibition that explores the portraits of Korean artists and the portraits of contemporary art, photographed by renowned photo artists in Korea. The parentheses '(out)' in the title of the exhibition include both the meaning of 'artist portrait' and 'portrait without artist'. Through the juxtaposition of 'with/without'
2018.03.18
