Chung Suejin graduated from the Department of Painting at Hongik University (1992) and obtained a master’s degree from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (1995). She is currently working under an exclusive contract with the LEE EUGEAN Gallery.
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Gallery is pleased to present Suejin Chung’s solo exhibition, 《See through Our Eyes》.
The show will be on view from September 2nd to 29th. It is Chung’s first solo
exhibition in Korea since 2006. She introduces her own visual language through
her paintings fully filled up with numerous shapes and elements.
Chung tries to establish a visual logic system that breaks through
all the forms and shapes of the paintings. The visual logic literally means a
‘paradigm just by seeing an object.’ For this reason, she distinguishes the act
of ‘seeing’ from the visual logic system. We are easily captured by existing
knowledge or unrealized concept when we look at an image. However, this may not
apply to ‘seeing’ Chung’s works and grasp her pictorial language. She insists
on a necessity of ‘objective seeing’ to fully understand the essential meaning
of painting and numerous detailed or abstract forms expressed on her paintings.
She wants for viewers to ‘see’ a ‘presence’ of things and images objectively
not subjectively.
By ‘seeing’ images in Chung’s way, there will only two most
fundamental things remain: color and shape. Among the images and forms filling
the every corner of the canvas, there are familiar images of people, faces,
plants, and daily objects. These images seem to contain a meaning or to tell a
story. However, they are just visualized images formed of simple shapes and
forms that cannot be read. Therefore, even with the details and actual
elements, Chung’s paintings become closer to an abstraction.
The images generated by the process of shapes and colors are
expressed on the screen, the most fundamental dimension of the painting. There,
a multidimensional visual space is created between visible and invisible
domain. Chung presents a potential of various interpretations on this system of
multidimensional space with cumulative layers of shapes and structures. In this
way, she tries to find the basic and conceptual structure that allows and
creates diverse images. This is the visual language that Chung is trying to
develop and the point what viewers may pay attention to.
Chung is persistently looking for the structure of this visual
language. By her way of ‘seeing’, viewers can learn how the ‘multi dimensional
geometry’ based on the visual language develops.
