“square_bi:tjlfhgadfdagggg” Installation view at Museumhead ©Musuemhead
Museumhead presents square_bi:tjlfhgadfdagggg, a solo exhibition by Soojung Choi (b. 1977), from July 12 to August 12.
Soojung Choi explores the conditions of conventional painting and experiments with way to go beyond them. Through the images on the surface of her paintings, she stimulates memories and narratives beyond the image, and uses threads on the paintings to add a tactile effect. Recently, the artist has been visualizing forest landscapes with exotic plants by using the mechanism of RGB colors and embroidering with threads.
This exhibition can be seen as an extension of her recent work. The exhibition considers painting’s long history of creating illusions out of things whose existence is not obvious and understands the artists work as a new experimentation with this convention. Ten new paintings of the same size are on view in the exhibition, which depict forest landscapes in fluorescent colors. Rather than preoccupied with creating pictorial illusions, these works disturb and unsettle the objects in the paintings, leading the visual experience beyond convention. By deconstructing RGB colors, rearranging them, and embroidering with threads, the artists create new relationships with reality and encourage active viewing.
Scenes from paintings such as ‘mirage’ will allow the viewer to reconsider the traditional relationship between the image and the eye that gazes upon it.
