Gallery 2, one of the famous galleries in Korea, has unpacked its luggage at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023. Gallery 2 is participating in the 'Discoveries' section of this year's event, showcasing new works by up-and-coming artists. Gallery 2 presents a total of 16 works from the series by Hyunsun Jeon (b. 1989), and many visitors to the booth are showing great interest.
Below is a description of the artist's world of art and her profile provided by Gallery 2.
Jeon has long sought to break away from conventional presentations of her paintings. Rather than hanging her works at eye level to meet viewers where they stand, she places individual works in idiosyncratic positions in order to redirect the viewer’s gaze and facilitate more engaged encounters with the images she renders.
This is fitting, given the complexity of her compositions, which possess neither center nor periphery and are populated by “images that constantly collapse and rise over and over.” Divisions between figure and ground are frequently indistinguishable in Jeon’s works, as are horizon lines and perceptible depths of field—all of which are defining characteristics of the landscape genre. The disorienting distortions of scale that result from such ambiguities permit fluid exchanges between large and small, foreground and background, challenging viewers’ preconceptions of landscape paintings and the types of spaces that they depict.
Jeon’s spatial experiments also transcend the boundaries of individual paintings; since 2021, she has adopted a methodology of combining multiple canvases to form composite networks of paintings. Working without any fixed notion of the final composition, she paints each individual canvas independently and only assembles them as a collective whole after they are all complete. Whether placed side-by-side or arrayed into large-scale grids, these arrangements give rise to unexpected visual correlations, coincidences and incongruities of the “pictorial state created when an image meets another image.”
She paints things that evoke certain stories. Jeon does not explain, but each of her works start from a personal experience. Her works embody emotional ambiances rather than visual moments. The superimposed and overlapping geometric shapes are her best visual depictions of compounded emotions and situations. She transposes the enigmas as a whole onto the shapes. Her desire to paint the trivial and ambiguous rather than the obvious is conveyed her choice form that does not clearly distinguish between abstraction and representation. She has attended Ewha Woman's University(BFA; Painting) and further continued to pursue her postgraduate degree at Ewha Woman's University(MFA; Painting). Her main solo exhibitions were held at Gallery2(Seoul), P21(Seoul), Space LOOP (Seoul), Leehwaik Gallery(Seoul). Jeon’s work has been featured in exhibitions, including Leeum Museum of Art(Seoul), MMCA(Cheongju), SongEun Art Space(Seoul), Busan Museum of Art(Busan).
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Gallery 2, one of the famous galleries in Korea, has unpacked its luggage at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023. Gallery 2 is participating in the 'Discoveries' section of this year's event, showcasing new works by up-and-coming artists. Gallery 2 presents a total of 16 works from the series by Hyunsun Jeon (b. 1989), and many visitors to the booth are showing great interest.
Below is a description of the artist's world of art and her profile provided by Gallery 2.
Jeon has long sought to break away from conventional presentations of her paintings. Rather than hanging her works at eye level to meet viewers where they stand, she places individual works in idiosyncratic positions in order to redirect the viewer’s gaze and facilitate more engaged encounters with the images she renders.
This is fitting, given the complexity of her compositions, which possess neither center nor periphery and are populated by “images that constantly collapse and rise over and over.” Divisions between figure and ground are frequently indistinguishable in Jeon’s works, as are horizon lines and perceptible depths of field—all of which are defining characteristics of the landscape genre. The disorienting distortions of scale that result from such ambiguities permit fluid exchanges between large and small, foreground and background, challenging viewers’ preconceptions of landscape paintings and the types of spaces that they depict.
Jeon’s spatial experiments also transcend the boundaries of individual paintings; since 2021, she has adopted a methodology of combining multiple canvases to form composite networks of paintings. Working without any fixed notion of the final composition, she paints each individual canvas independently and only assembles them as a collective whole after they are all complete. Whether placed side-by-side or arrayed into large-scale grids, these arrangements give rise to unexpected visual correlations, coincidences and incongruities of the “pictorial state created when an image meets another image.”
She paints things that evoke certain stories. Jeon does not explain, but each of her works start from a personal experience. Her works embody emotional ambiances rather than visual moments. The superimposed and overlapping geometric shapes are her best visual depictions of compounded emotions and situations. She transposes the enigmas as a whole onto the shapes. Her desire to paint the trivial and ambiguous rather than the obvious is conveyed her choice form that does not clearly distinguish between abstraction and representation. She has attended Ewha Woman's University(BFA; Painting) and further continued to pursue her postgraduate degree at Ewha Woman's University(MFA; Painting). Her main solo exhibitions were held at Gallery2(Seoul), P21(Seoul), Space LOOP (Seoul), Leehwaik Gallery(Seoul). Jeon’s work has been featured in exhibitions, including Leeum Museum of Art(Seoul), MMCA(Cheongju), SongEun Art Space(Seoul), Busan Museum of Art(Busan).
