Trunk Gallery is working hard to bring development to Korean Art by discovering new talented artists. ‘Mae-Ari’ is Trunk Gallery’s first ‘New Artist Contest’ organized by Trunk Gallery’s two curators Hyeonjung Son and Gajin Kim. This contest exhibition introduces the next generation’s leading artists of Korean Art. Jangyeon Jeon, Eunjeong Jo and Munmo Yang are the three chosen artists for this exhibition and through their works we can listen to the voices of this generation’s youthfulness. We are expecting to see more from the passions of these young artists.

‘Mae-Ari’, a Korean term for ‘Echo’ is a sound that travels through mountains or rivers which will be returned by reflecting off a surface of other mountains. As it takes time for sound to travel back as Mae-Ari, these three young artists expresses the stories of Korea from 1980s to year 2010 with their own media and theme.

 Eunjeong Jo’s work ‘Bukahyun-Dong Romance’ shows the sceneries of old Bukahyun town allies which soon will be disappeared by regional redevelopment. She first built a miniature version of the allies of Bukahyun-Dong and took a photo of it. Then with silkscreen processing over the photo she transformed this old town to a fantastic mountain village.

 ‘Open Sound’, the work of Jangyeon Jeon was started from the idea that ‘sound is a metaphor for communication’. With her own senses and logic, Jangyeon selected a distinctive sound and then visualized it through photography. By expressing sound as an image which is a new concept of visualization, Jangyeon tries to communicate with the audience.

 Munmo Yang’s ‘Jumping Life’ is an ‘observation video art’. Each attendant was asked to do 130 jumping ropes and after they finished it they were asked to take their own free time. Not only from school but also from society there are many standards which people have to obey to survive and Munmo Yang expresses those situations as a video showing people standing awkwardly after they were done with the jumping ropes.