“Gaze Play” Installation view at Space Willing N Dealing ©Space Willing N Dealing
From September 22 to October 29, Space Willing N Dealing will present Gaze Play, a two-person exhibition by artists Ryu Minji and Han Hwangsu.
The exhibition focuses on how both artists transform visual information into artworks through a playful attitude. In her paintings, Ryu Minji captures the surrounding landscape as seen through her studio window. In this process, the artist pays attention to the emotion of the moment when she transfers the landscape she sees to the canvas, and the landscape outside the window is depicted on the canvas with various emotions, time, and environment involved.
In this exhibition, Han Hwangsu applies the technique of photo processing with graphic tools to photographs of his wife’s objects. The objects in the photographs are ones that the artist does not normally use, and the process of reconstructing them emphasizes their strangeness. The photographs create texts, or are created from texts, and the texts are displayed alongside the photographs, allowing the viewer to see the connection between them.
