“Breath” Poster ©CAN Foundation
The Old House of the CAN Foundation will host Yumi Chung’s solo exhibition “Breath” for two weeks from April 13 to 27. This exhibition features drawings and paintings from the artist’s recent ‘Imaginary Landscape’ series.
Inspired by nature, the artist creates thought-provoking images in her own format. The works empathetically represent nature as experienced and felt, such as the sea, water, islands, mountains, and wind. Sometimes they represent the nature she has experienced directly, and sometimes they recreate the imaginary landscapes she has felt during her journeys.
The towering or clustered masses in the works are either rocks that have been weathered by nature or stones that have been artificially placed and stacked. Although they have contrasting characteristics, the artist looks at them as one object and focuses on the sensations and emotions she felt at the time.
The artist’s ‘Imaginary Landscape’ series originated from her time studying abroad in Europe. After studying abroad in London (2012-2014), she participated in residency programs in Iceland (2015) and Norway (2016). While staying in Ålvik, Norway, she experienced a new world of nature. There, she was overwhelmed by nature, which was unimaginable to her as an “asphalt kid,” so she dropped everything and accepted the message of nature itself, and the series of “Imaginary Landscape” began.
