Exhibition view of "Hyunsun Jeon Meet Me in the Middle" at Gallery 2, Seoul. July 7, 2022 — August 6, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery 2.
Artist Hyunsun Jeon is featured at Gallery 2 until August 6, 2022. The artist creates a landscape far from reality by expressing personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings and collecting images with watercolors on the canvas. In this solo exhibition, Meet Me in the Middle, Jeon presents works that explore the middle point where two disparate objects meet.
By reaching the middle point, the artist is referring to the process of finding not only a physical and psychological meeting point but also coming up with a compromise in the genre of painting. To the artist, that common ground is also an area that is difficult to reach. The artist’s previous works consisted of carefully selected simple forms, solid repeating lines, and multi-layered colors. The paintings in this exhibition take on freer and more improvisational forms with boldly painted colors. The geometric shapes represent abstract forms of experience and understanding of the mutual relationships that occur with people, objects, and situations. The exhibition is divided into four sections: first, two different objects that represent multiple relationships; second, a difference that cannot be narrowed down; third, the state of accepting the other through a mirror; and, finally, a monumental sculpture that refers to a temporary solution and agreement.
Hyunsun Jeon (b. 1989) has held numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including Gallery 2 (2018), Alternative Space Loop (2018), and Place Mak (2015). She was in group exhibitions held at Leeum Museum of Art (2022), Space Willing and Dealing (2020), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju (2019), Busan Museum of Art (2018), Project space SARUBIA (2017), and Doosan Gallery (2015). Jeon won the 2017 Chong Kun Dang Art Award and was also selected for the thirty-seventh JoongAng Fine Arts Prize in 2015.
