Words slipped out of the studio
We often pause before completed works under the immaculate illumination of the white cube. Yet long before an artistic entity takes its visible form, artists traverse a dense, silent passage within a deeply private territory. This exhibition seeks to trace that unseen duration—the narrative that quietly begins the moment one steps across the studio threshold. Stepping away from the glaring noise of everyday life, the artists find their rhythm in absolute stillness and the quiet hours of dawn.
Turning on the light to pause and contemplate the hardened pigment of yesterday, or gently sensing the air shifting outside the window—these subtle routines are already a monumental labor unfolding before the brush ever touches the canvas. Just as microscopic, unseen particles meet the light to form a shimmering landscape, vague afterimages lingering in the mind are materialized onto the canvas through persistent touch.
Jung Su-jin bridges the microscopic dust with a vast, cosmic scale, while Jung Jin-a translates the questions she poses to herself into the canvas, sustained by the energy and prolonged practice of a blurred, ambiguous gaze. This space is where the intimate language from a private domain has slipped out into the world to encounter the viewer.
Through the preliminary exhibition prologue interviews, visitors will first encounter the quiet breath and voices of the artists. The moment an imagination born from an invisible sound overlaps with the visual reality before your eyes, we invite you to temporarily set aside the sharp focus of daily life and deeply permeate into the ambiguous, beautiful gaps perceived by the artists.
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