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Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters
Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993) employs black comedy to incisively examine capitalism and individual secular desires that dominate today’s political and social issues in Korea. Through performances, videos, and installations that adopt the format of one-person media broadcasts, the artist satirizes the entangled relationship between Korea’s unique traditional and folkloric values and its neoliberal social structures.
2025.05.26
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[Critique] “Why My Sculpture Is Pictorial”
The wooden sculptural works of his that I remember have rough surfaces that are neither sufficiently polished nor fully colored. The sculptural forms, which look as if they have been summoned from a tree trunk standing in the ground with a sincere gaze, support a three-dimensional sense that rotates in the verticality of a cylinder.
2022.03.04
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《Here and There》, 2025.03.20 – 2025.04.30, Galerie Lelong & Co. (Paris)
"I dream a lot" says Hyunsun Jeon. In her paintings, she tries to capture the diffuse feelings that persist when you wake up, when what remains of your dreams are impressions, colours and hybrid shapes – impossible syntheses of real memories. But Jeon's painting, however dreamlike, is above all driven by a concrete quest: what is an image, what is representation ?
2025.03.18
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Artist Choe Sooryeon Recontextualizes Traditional "Oriental" Clichés
Choe Sooryeon (b. 1986) observes the aspects of so-called "Oriental-style" imagery and how it is consumed, reflecting these observations in her paintings. To do so, she collects traditional cliché images shared across Northeast Asia from classic Korean and Chinese films. Based on these images, her paintings reveal themes of sorrow, femininity, disconnection from reality, inner Orientalism, doubt, ignorance, and absurdity.
2025.02.18
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