My second solo exhibition, held in Korea, is based on a sitcom titled "Soonpoong OB-GYN," which was aired in Korea about 10 years ago. I have been watching this sitcom on and off; the realistic settings and the comical situations presented in the show developed into questions and curiosities regarding characterization and unresolved narrative threads in certain episodes.

These ideas and questions, one may say, are in line with topics I have been pursuing through my past works, such as "my emotional response to impressive moments" or "my view of the boundaries between fiction and reality."

In this light, the "Dark Soonpoong" series presented in this solo exhibition consist of works that exude a rather dark aura, especially compared to the comic nature of the original show. For instance, I deal with the viewer/audience's emotional response to certain secrets involving Young-gyu Park, a character on whom I laid particular focus. My impression of the comic situations presented in the episodes were, the more I watch, rather sadness or confusion. Also, motifs such as infertility or the hospital as the backdrop served as an emotional burden, reminding me of my third brother who never had a chance to breath outside the womb or my recent physical ailments, and in turn gave rise to various visual expressions.

Dark Soonpoong 1, comprising three two-dimensional works, captures images that frequent the show. Young-gyu Park's habit of displaying gestures of pain, or the miniature rendering of the background village generate new types of impressions in the viewers' mind when remodeled on to flat surfaces in the form of traditional paintings.

Dark Soongpoong 2 shows an image capture of a child visiting the OBGYN. A large-sized sculpture, installed on the wall, portrays a mother holding a child in her arms after going through the registration process at the hospital. The cracked, abraded surface contains photos of the show's characters, whose faces display obscure facial expressions.

Dark Soonpoong 3 is a minature version of the hospital itself. Shattered pieces of Soonpoong's building, which had been completely destroyed to the extent that "it was difficult to discern its original form" (according to a newspaper article's expression), are scattered about on the floor.

Dark Soonpoong 4 shows graph versions of various physical ailments I had recently been subject to, in the form of a fence-shaped installation. A newspaper clip about a luncheon celebrating the show's closure and a copy of my medical referral are attached to the back side of the work.

Dark Soonpoong 5 is a two dimensional work that contains a typographically rendered version of one of the later episodes, in which Young-gyu Park is diagnosed with aspermia.

My Third Brother and Black Mother deals with my imaginations about my third brother, who was a victim of miscarriage, and the dream of a huge, black mother that had haunted me throughout my childhood.

I'm not a popper is about words I unconsciously, and almost habitually recite upon encountering certain situations, and other thoughts or words that ensue.