AUGUST 2, 2020 

이해민선, 가슴에 대고_나의작업테이블 On the chest_my table, 린넨 위에 오일, 30x40cm(20pcs), 2020

Courtesy of: Gallery SoSo, Korea l ⓒ2020 All rights reserved. Photo by Junyong Cho

Jung Jung Yeob & Leehaiminsun- Flesh.Body.Walls

4 Jul – 2 Aug 2020

Some words arouse some associations without being confined to a single word. They might arouse some vague scenes, recall a story and generate reasoning and sceneries. The title of this exhibition “Flesh, Body and Walls” are the examples. The participating artists - Jung Jung Yeob and Leehaiminsun – crisscross the three words freely, generating some images by weaving them in many strands.

Jung Jung Yeob remembers 30,000 victims of the April 3rd Uprising and Massacre. She painted each and every one of 1,000 red beans on a single canvas and repeated the act 30 times to feel the sheer number of 30,000. She offered her condolence to their death by bringing in the number 30,000 to 30 canvases, and represented the unfathomable infinity with the relocated red beans. The star-like infinity is reminiscent of the tragedy of the incidence, yet looking like scattered seeds, and inducing the audience to estimate that the act of remembering the victims imbues hopes.

Leehaiminsun goes to her studio every day. Once she is there, she touches her work table while tidying it up. The tactile feel of groping her table is nothing different than cultivating the land to do some work on it. She leans herself back against the tidy table to carry on her work. The empty space under the table is like a cliff, but she has her chest almost attached to the table to paint. The 20 paintings placed on 1F of the gallery are her drawings of the well tamed table on cotton paper.

Let’s take a look at the words for the exhibition title. The first word ‘flesh’ is a soft that covers our bonds and muscles where the human contact with the outside world takes place for the first time. The ‘body’ not only refers to the human’s biological limitation but also serves as a ground of possibilities that embody the human desire and spirit by moving around in a daily life. Lastly, the ‘walls’ are a metaphor for the overwhelming reality as well as the boundary of a physical space.

The two participating artists in 《Flesh.Body.Walls》 scoop up the sense of incidences happening outside and their daily life endlessly by encountering the world through their flesh. By embracing them with their body, they turn them in their exclusively creative figurative language, and put them into the act of painting. It is also an act of expressing their personal and social reality being analogous to far-off walls, and of endlessly frequenting the walls placed between their inner and outer worlds. The images they unfold in this exhibition are the combination and fragments of the flesh, body and walls forming their inner world and covering their surroundings. _ Yoon Sujung (Gallery SoSo)

정정엽, 삼만개의 별-제주4.3, 캔버스에 유채, 73x60.5cm(30pcs), 2020, 갤러리 소소 전시전경

Photograph: Gallery SoSo, Korea / ⓒ2020 All rights reserved. Photo by Junyong Cho