Installation view of 《Take My Eyes Off》 ©SeMA
Buk-Seoul
Museum of Art presents a group exhibition 《Take My Eyes
Off》 on view through July 20. 《Take
My Eyes Off》 is an exhibition that examines
painting―entangled in a turbulent affair with ‘vision’ and ‘image’―and
highlights the strategies of contemporary painting.
The
exhibition presents contemporary painting that responds to today’s
image-saturated visual environment and seeks a new ‘visuality,’ using the motif
of the ‘eye’ to reveal painting’s potential as a site of practice. Framed by
the Seoul Museum of Art’s 2025 agenda of ‘Action’ and featured as part of
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art’s special theme, ‘Countermoves of Painting,’ 《Take My Eyes Off》 seeks to reexamine
contemporary painting and invite social and cultural reflection through
painting.
Installation view of 《Take My Eyes Off》 ©SeMA
Painting
is a visual art form that uses color and line to create shapes on a
two-dimensional surface such as canvas or paper. Bound by its flat, motionless
surface and the expectation that it presents an image that is either beautiful
or pleasing to look at, painting was long regarded as a static form―an art
without a future.
Yet,
Contemporary painting actively engages with the logic of images as they
circulate and are consumed in the digital age, renewing itself in the process.
In doing so, it reveals how images affect and collide with our vision. It moves
and awakens the eyes bound to the image, urging us to imagine a path
forward―not a closed ending.
Installation view of 《Take My Eyes Off》 ©SeMA
contemporary
works that shake our vision loose from the images it clings to. Eight painters
explore perceptual and cognitive shifts, working at the intersection of image
and vision.
Their
works give form to the strategies of contemporary painting and point toward a
narrative that remains “on the air.” Structured in four parts, the exhibition
unfolds like a film or drama. And it begins with this: our eyes tremble. And
then―they take off.
Participating
Artists: MeeNa
Park, Rahm Parc, Miryu Yoon, Yeongbin Yoon, Eunsae Lee, Yebin Chang, Hyerim
Jun, Suejin Chung
