Installation view
of “Catcher” ©Chapter IIChapter
II presents “Catcher,” a solo exhibition of works by Kim Su Yeon, on view
through November 23, in Yeonnam-dong, Seoul.
Kim has
continued the ‘Weather Series’ by visualizing time, often represented by
weather, into matter. In this exhibition, she reveals the result of her records
on the temperature and humidity of four seasons, collected during Chapter II
Residency 2023, delivered onto canvases.
Installation view
of “Catcher” ©Chapter IIOver the last decade, Kim has created three-dimensional figures by using text clippings selected from illustrated plant books, encyclopedias or pornography at first and turned the outcomes into still-life paintings. Including the ‘weather series,’ relatively recently produced, Kim has consistently dealt with things that existed but disappeared now or exist but unseen, as a leitmotif of her practice. Since she became a resident artist of Chapter II, she prioritized “how” she would paint rather than “what” she would paint through my experiment.
Installation view
of “Catcher” ©Chapter IIKim Su Yeon (b.1986) completed an MFA and
BFA in Painting at Kookmin University. Her solo exhibitions opened at Gallery2
Joongsun Nongwon (2024), P21 (2022), Gallery2 (2021, 2018, 2017), SH Art
Project (2019). She participated in several group exhibitions at leading
contemporary art establishments, such as Korean Culture Center in Hong Kong
(2024), Chapter II (2023), Esther Schipper Berlin/Seoul (2023), Artcenter
Whiteblock (2023), Ulsan Art Museum (2022), Museumhead (2021), OCI Museum of
Art (2020), Ilmin Museum of Art (2019) and Busan Museum of Art (2018).
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
