“Eternity and a Day“ Installation view at WESS ©WESSWESS, a non-profit organization, will present “Eternity and a Day” by Areum Kim and Suyeont from May 17 to June 16. The two-person exhibition is concerated on the theme of ‘Connection,’ which runs through the entire this exhibition.
Kim’s interest in the emotions that dominate a particular period of time, and the shapes that keep coming into her mind, lead to her working motifs, depicting the inner and outer worlds as promised symbols. Throughout the artist’s work, several figures appear; hearts, flowers, butterflies, birds, and water droplets, which are connected through the curves of vines in nature.
Vines have the ability to wrap themselves around their surroundings and extend into the whole, and the artist finds new abstract inspiration in the free-flowing tangles of natural vines, which she emulates. The silhouettes, cars, cliffs, and maps that emerge through the curves of these vines are connected to the iconography, and the whole becomes one. They are metaphors for love, connection, and departure.
In Suyeont’s work, some of the figures appear as specific symbols, such as circles, houses, stars, and streams of water, and they appear like characters. The house represents herself, and the pair of symbols metaphorizes the relationship between two people. In order to express the sense of connection on a canvas, the forms are recorded with the most refined lines, eliminating unnecessary elements and, in the artist’s words, ‘painting to the minimum’. The artist’s work is composed of the minimal elements that constitute personal and social relationships, and as it appears on the screen, the artist’s work eliminates improvisational choices in the formulation as much as possible.
Both artists develop their oeuvre around an interest in the invisible world. Both artists’ works are reminiscent of some form but do not correspond to actual objects in the real world. The inner worlds they make visible are different, colorful, emotional, and free. The exhibition attempts to reveal the uniqueness of each artist’s work while also exploring the possibility of finding a meaningful nodal point.
