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Past
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Every bride is pretty
Hyeonkyeong You 8 March - 18 April 2024 The exhibition Every Bride is Pretty unveils You's distinctive approach to painting and perception, encompassing figures, objects, and landscapes. Her artworks defy easy categorisation such as portrait or still life, featuring expressive brushwork and abstract forms, even when depicting figurative subjects. Executed with minimal strokes, the paintings purposefully omit certain external features, fostering the illusion of swift execution while, in truth, demanding substantial amount of time and thorough observation. This intentional omission imbues the works with a sense of emptiness, yet the heavy colours and tones, rugged brushwork, and bold compositions maintain a tension between the artist and the objects. Read more -
Chaos/Calm
Sé Young Kipp 1 December 2023 - 22 February 2024 Chaos/Calm invites viewers to sit in the ambiguous, almost unsettling landscape of identity presented throughout each layer of the works. Questioning and deciphering how each aspect contributes to the whole of the works as it stares back, simply as it exists in all its dimensions. The paintings detail a range of acrylic mediums evoking heavy, tactile textures to wispy, translucent veils presented to reveal the contradictions simultaneously. Read more -
Ode to threads
Higi Jung & Mingi Jung 9 June - 14 October 2023 The word ‘thread’ is defined as a significant plot line of a story or a string of fibre used in sewing. These definitions represent all aspects of this exhibition. Using sewing machines as their brushes, the artists colour their canvases with personal stories that many of audience can resonate. Higi and Mingi are siblings from the family who has been working with textiles for generations and their upbringings have enabled them to express their identities, ideologies and experiences on their textile canvases. Emotions such as hope, sorrow and more that they encountered calmly live in the soft cotton world of the artists. Traversing a variety of genres, the artists create not only paintings but performances. Read more
