Installation view of 《Almost Landscape (風景未遂)》. © 2GIL29 Gallery
2GIL29 Gallery presents 《Almost Landscape (風景未遂)》, on view through July 11. The exhibition brings together five
artists: Yeonyong Kim (b.1973), Choonghyun Roh (b.1970), Dongwook Suh (b.1974),
Doojin Ahn (b.1975), and Yongkook Jeong (b.1972).
Landscape has long occupied a central place in the history of
art as a means of depicting nature and place. Yet in contemporary practice,
landscape no longer exists as a fixed subject or a completed image.
Instead, it emerges as a shifting condition in which memory and
experience, sensation and perception continuously intersect and transform.
For these five artists, landscape functions less as a
representation of the external world than as a site where reality, memory,
materiality, and psychology converge.
Installation view of 《Almost Landscape (風景未遂)》. © 2GIL29 Gallery
The exhibition title, “Almost Landscape (風景未遂),” refers to a state of becoming—something
suspended between formation and completion. The word misu (未遂) suggests not failure, but a condition of perpetual incompletion.
While each artist pursues a distinct reality, their practices
are marked by uncertainty, tension, and the impossibility of arrival. What
emerges is not a resolved image, but a sustained engagement with instability,
hesitation, and transformation.
Installation view of 《Almost Landscape (風景未遂)》. © 2GIL29 Gallery
Rather than presenting landscape as a completed image, 《Almost Landscape》
foregrounds the instability and unresolved conditions through which landscape
comes into being.
Bringing together five distinct artistic languages, the
exhibition reflects on the evolving possibilities of landscape today while
offering a lens through which to consider broader questions within contemporary
Korean art.
Participating Artists: Yeonyong Kim,
Choonghyun Roh, Dongwook Suh, Doojin Ahn, Yongkook Jeong
