Installation view of 《Midnight
Walk》 ©Gallery BatonGallery Baton presents 《Midnight Walk》, a solo exhibition by London-based artist
Minyoung Choi, on view through August 9.
As an artist, Choi uses memories and images from her personal
experiences to create surrealistic landscapes with free narrative structures
where memory intersects with fantasy. The strange yet familiar scenes that
appear in her work evoke visual illusions reminiscent of dream imagery, while
creating subtle fissures in everyday experience. In the process, she presents
the viewer with a different perspective as she reveals the latent emotions and
imagination in the cracks of reality.
Installation view of 《Midnight
Walk》 ©Gallery BatonThis exhibition showcases her process of gradually expanding her
worldview with narratives elicited from deep internal strata. Starting with
figurative expressions that combine everyday memory with fragments of dreams,
it proceeds to a deeper level of personal experience and inner consciousness,
arriving at a unique aesthetic that breaks down the boundaries of perception
and imagination.
The exhibition forms a multilayered narrative through a
combination of new and recent works set in unknown places and times. The use of
blue and green as main colors creates the supernatural mood of a new time and
space, while the curious movements of creatures above and below the water’s
surface evoke a powerful visual impression.
Installation view of 《Midnight
Walk》 ©Gallery BatonChoi evokes different sensory layers as she forms a mysterious
narrative on the boundary where reality intersects with unreality, space with
time, and consciousness with the unconscious. Her images lead viewers on a
journey of emotions that feel both unfamiliar and familiar, guiding them to
drift through inner memories and personal fantasies.
