“Outdoor Installation Easel” Poster © Post Territory UjeonggukHyungjun Choi (b. 1997)’s solo exhibition Outdoor Installation Easel is on view from June 23 to July 9 at the Post Territory Ujeongguk. Hyungjun records changes in natural landscapes and visualizes their climatic and dynamic elements based on outdoor sketching and installation. The artist identifies the main material of ink painting as solidity. The artist understands Korean traditional ink by noting its ability to easily adhere to surfaces, and traditional hanji’s ability to keep its original shape.
In this exhibition, the artist uses ink to represent a place where he was forced to move in without his will. The work consists of ink drawings of parks in Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, places where he worked as a social service agent, and the Korea army training center where the artist had stayed. < Dokbawi Park outdoor sketching > (2020-2022) is an ink drawing in which the artist installed an easel-like structure in Dokbawi Park for five months. The artist reveals that the process of filling the easel-like structure was like his own life as he moved to Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, and settled down.
The exhibition also features other works by the artist, as well as the artist’s statement, which provides a candid description of the project’s process as he attempted to sketch outdoors in a structural installation.
