Installation view of 《Where All Places Are》 © Kumho Museum of Art

The Kumho Creative Studio Resident Artists Exhibition at Kumho Museum of Art presents the results of artists who devoted themselves to creation during a one-year residency in provided studios.
 
The 16th Kumho Creative Studio Resident Artists Exhibition 《Where All Places Are》 introduces nine artists who began their residency in October 2020. Working across painting, installation, sculpture, and other media, the artists demonstrate the limitless possibilities of art as a language and allow viewers to gauge the direction of contemporary Korean art.
 
The exhibition title 《Where All Places Are》 is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “El Aleph.” In the story, the protagonist Carlos Argentino Daneri shows the narrator Borges a point he discovered in his basement and calls it “the Aleph.” Described by the two characters as a small sphere with a diameter of 2–3 cm, the Aleph is “a point in space that contains all other points,” where “all the points on Earth, seen from every angle, are visible without confusion.”
 
The nine artists gathered in Icheon for one year and are introduced collectively as “Kumho Creative Studio resident artists,” yet the artistic results they present fully reveal the nine distinct worlds each artist carries. The exhibition views their achievements in analogy to the nature of the Aleph—a place where all times, scenes, and sensations in the world appear without reduction.


Installation view of 《Where All Places Are》 © Kumho Museum of Art

The nine participating artists include: Kang Heejung, who devised “three-dimensional books” by dismantling the original form and function of books; Guna, who translates the dissonance between real images and inner sensations into painting and sculpture; Wonjin Kim, who expresses philosophical inquiry into the incompleteness of memory that is forgotten and transformed over time through installation; Park Dasom, who confronts the sense of loss inherent in material finitude through the methodology of dreams applied to painting;

Seo Wonmi, who expresses “festivalized death” through vibrant color and deconstructive use of paint; Yohanhan, who explores reflective perspectives on contemporary systems of communication through works composed of bodily elements; Yoon Hyesun, who expresses everyday anxiety through landscapes drawn stroke by stroke; Lee Eunji, who depicts indefinable emotional “lumps” through the motif of vines; and Park Jinhee, who paints abstract landscapes based on her surroundings and lived sensations.
 
The Kumho Creative Studio Resident Artists Exhibition presents artworks that reflect each artist’s unique way of seeing and receiving the world. Rather than uniting them under a single theme, it focuses on revealing individual characteristics and highlighting the essence of art discovered in their works and the limitless possibilities they hold.

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