CAIS Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition “Knocking” by 4 artists having the “painting” as a common quality in their storytelling of the world. While keeping the basic painting method, the artist each in their own way reveals one’s view toward the world “knocking on” the consciousness of the audience. Each participant in their own personal terms and medium contemplates the world with a piercing intuition and imagination beyond ordinariness.
Sung Soo Lim arranges an ordinary composition of modern society being consumed by transient circumstance and human desire, by adapting cartoonish image and characters. On the reverse side of its lightness and rather intimate image, underlies either cynical or pessimistic inclination simultaneously. Such critical gesture brings out a twist to the scene through a playful pleasure.
Works by Bom Kim begins from a various viewpoint, perspectives on landscape. She elaborately records every detail in close examination of any scene of the world as the explorer does. Within a single place, various incidents and memories coexist through many interpretations of a scene through diverse angles. The strong motives that specify ‘places such as Mt. Nam, Han River, Busan, etc.’ harmonize with landscape, incident, as well as surrounding building structures. Icons are recomposed based on an actual map, recombining the collaged images.
Soon Young Kwon, through world of characters formed by memory and imagination, expresses the realm of universal human emotion such as fear, isolation, and pain of feeble beings. The characters within her works, without a specific development, creates a fantasy like scene while being overlapped by mental pains through injured physical body that embodies wounds and pain on emotional state.
Through a large group of people, Soo Hyung Park depicts modern society repetitiously moving on day by day. The works show people blindly climbing up with no definite destination, people swept away by the throng just seems to busily survive day after day without goals or dreams. Such combination of familiar scene creates crude scenery that becomes both concrete and abstract.
In this way, each work carries the world reflected upon the artist’s eyes, daily life, and various sides of people inherent in modern society. It is also easy to discover our own among those numerous stories.
We hope that CAIS Gallery Hong Kong will knock on each and every one’s sensibility as well as educe head trip and sympathy through its varied feature of world reinterpreted by the artists with diverse perspectives.
- Hyun Jung Lee, Curator
