As its final exhibition of 2024, SH GALLERY SEOUL presents the five-artist group exhibition 《Your Marvelous World, and Art》, featuring Korean and Japanese artists. The exhibition runs from December 19 to January 18 and is open to the public free of charge.

The world seems to reveal a series of repetitive movements. These movements may connect into continuity or break abruptly into fragments. At the same time, forces that integrate and unify coexist with forces that diverge unpredictably, fragmenting and dispersing. To some, these movements—their flows and rhythms—appear more distinctly. Movements toward order and movements toward chaos. Yet not everyone perceives them.

There are those who recognize them more quickly and precisely—those with heightened sensitivity or exceptional talent and discernment. The marvel of a world that infinitely expands while simultaneously infinitely contracts. A painter’s image is always intense yet meticulously constructed, delicately balancing concept and expression.

Here are five artists, each living within different times and experiences. They share intuitions that individual consciousness and life are in fact closely connected to humanity and civilization as a whole; sensations of encountering an inexplicably powerful vitality; everyday life and reality shaped by capital and commodities; lives endured fiercely between existence and nonexistence; and transcendental thought and ultimate liberation. Vast, eternal time and fleeting moments; time as distant as the edge of the universe and time as intimately close without a gap.


Text by Kim No-am (Art Critic)

References

• 《당신의 경이로운 세계, 그리고 예술 (Your Marvelous World, and Art)》