[Jungho Jung] Critical Essay / Yang Hyosil
Transmitted Folklore, or the Practice of Listening to the Voices of the Common PeopleHyosil YangAccording to transmitted tales and folklore, Yi Seong-gye regarded the Buddhist monk Muhak, who had...
View Article[Hyelim Hong] Critical Essays 2024 / Jinshil Lee
A Daughter’s “Regret” or “Feedback”Jinshil LeeHyelim Hong's landscapes resemble chaotic assemblages of construction materials, misused and left in disarray. Since 2020, the artist has used subsidiary...
View Article[Jinseung Jang] Critical Essay / Hong Leeji
Facing up to uncertaintyLeeji HongThe term "net art" was coined by visual artist Vuk Ćosić, who combined the words "net" (discovered in an email) and "art." Rhizome defines it as "art that acts on the...
View Article[Hwasoo Yoo] Critical Essay / Helen Jungyeon Ku
Sculpting the Time of Gyeong (경/景)Helen Jungyeon KuThe term jogyeong (조경/造景) translates to “landscape architecture.” The character jo (조/造) is a verb meaning “to create,” while its object, gyeong...
View Article[Arong Chung] Critical Essay / Yuki Konno
Images That Descend and Persist: The Path, Contact, and Message of Arong ChungYuki KonnoArong Chung’s solo exhibition Be Careful What You Wish For (2024) at Project Space SARUBIA featured the work In...
View Article[Ji Hye Yeom] Critical Essay / Nayeon Gu
Today, the Last Night Nayeon GuThis is about my end and the end of us all. On the last night, if only we had known it was coming—if we had realized it could have been prevented—one can only imagine the...
View Article[Hyangro Yoon] Critical Essay / Haeju Kim
The Experiential Aspect of PaintingHaeju KimOnce again, I am reminded how challenging it is to articulate a painting in words. A painting emerges from the convergence of countless choices—colors,...
View Article[Boyun Jang] Critical Essay / Yeonsook Lee (Rita)
“An Ordinary Scene that Someone Might Have Seen” Yeonsook Lee (Rita)I first encountered Boyun Jang’s work at Art Spectrum 2012, held at the Leeum Museum of Art. In this exhibition, the artist presented...
View Article[Minjung Kim] Critical Essay / Hangil Jang
What If Viewed Longer and SlowerHangil JangSite and MemoryDirector Claude Lanzmann, rejecting the use of archival footage and dramatization, focuses on interviews and location filming in Shoah (1985)....
View Article[Siha Kim] Critical Essay / Soyeon Ahn
“Shaping the World”Soyeon Ahn* Siha Kim’s recent work Earth Theater (2025) resembles, as its title suggests, a scene from a stage production. Or perhaps it is better described as a situation rather...
View Article[Woong Yong Kim] Critical Essay / Mijung Kim
Beyond the Skin Mijung KimI. Between Your BonesWoong Yong Kim“A nothing in relation to the infinite, a whole in relation to nothingness, a midpoint between nothing and everything, infinitely removed...
View Article[Gemini Kim] Critical Essay / Yuki Konno
Gemini Kim’s Reflective RunYuki Konno1. Looking back on the history of running, one might invoke the ideas of escape and flight. When faced with urgency, humans run. While jogging differs in that it...
View Article[JungEun Kim] Critical Essay / Heeseung Choi
On JungEun Kim’s Maps, Movement, and Circles Heeseung ChoiMaps: From Lost Map (2010) to the Self Mapping Series (2016–Present)Since beginning her practice in earnest around 2010, JungEun Kim has...
View Article[Juree Kim] Critical Essay / Hyun jeung Kim
Juree Kim: Time, Space, People, and Community Matter Hyun jeung KimWhenever I encounter Juree Kim’s work, I find myself asking what sculpture is. A quick search for the definition of sculpture yields a...
View Article[Ye-Eun Min] Critical Essay / Han Noori
A World of Parts Han Noori “Circles gradually lose their roots. Yet they discover their new roles and nature.” A structure connected around a single large circle comes into view. A pair of scissors...
View Article[Sora Park] Critical Essay / Woo Hyunjung
The Politics of Interruption: How to Stop an Undesired FutureWoo Hyunjung Objects and CommoditiesSora Park has developed a methodology that imagines future scenarios emerging from the continued...
View Article[Juho Song] Critical Essay / Yewon Seo
Another World Against Necessity, Latent PossibilitiesYewon Seo[0] Those who rarely arrive at the theater on time inevitably enter through its doors after the performance has already begun. Their...
View Article[Donghoon Rhee] Critical Essay / Jiwon Yu
Crafting Deliciously, Drawing Playfully Jiwon Yu Donghoon Rhee works with materials drawn from everyday life, shaping them into painted wooden sculptures, paper cuttings, and two-dimensional...
View Article[Lee Sejun] Critical Essay / Hyun-Jeoung Moon
How to Paint a UniverseHyun-Jeoung Moon1. Layering the World as Image“The world is my representation.” This famous proposition by Arthur Schopenhauer is a declaration that fractures the notion of the...
View Article[Sooji Lee] Critical Essay / Nayeon Gu
Tools are Only ToolsNayeon GuThere are artists who construct entire systems in order to produce their work. Such systems constitute a logical process directed toward the formal completion of an...
View Article[Eunsil Lee] Critical Essay / Jinshil Lee
Peering into the Haze of Taboo and DesireJinshil Lee“I want to talk about the things that exist in our lives but are treated as though they do not exist, hidden beneath a cover or behind a closed...
View Article[Leeje] Critical Essay / Lee Yeonsook (Rita)
Painting as a Practice of Everyday Mourning Lee Yeonsook (Rita)I must confess that it was only after visiting Leeje’s studio and listening to an account of her twenty years as a painter that I arrived...
View Article[Jinseung Jang] Critical Essay / Wonjoon Yoo
The Object Arrives: Jinseung Jang’s Work and Stories of the PresentWonjoon Yoo#1. The Social Responsibility of Art and TechnologyAEROSTRATA Oddly enough, it began the conversation by expressing concern...
View Article[Arong Chung] Critical Essay / Nayeon Gu
The Re-Enchantment of MagicNayeon GuIn the Western context, if the foundations of modernity were established through the economic transformation of the Industrial Revolution and the political...
View Article[Jesse Chun] Critical Essay / Hong Leeji
What Remains When Language Falls SilentHong LeejiJesse Chun’s work begins with a reconsideration of language’s historical identity and its sensory potential. She dismantles and reweaves the boundaries...
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