DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of YOO Seungho, echowords. The exhibition occupies his recent series of drawings which wittily create the interrelation between text and images in a visual world.

Echo word, a linguistic term that refers to a particular kind of reduplication or imitation, represents Yoo's drawings composed of piles of tiny meaningless onomatopoeic or mimetic words which together form into an image. Yoo focuses on the interrelationship between the text and the image where the text mimics the image and the image mimics the text.

Yoo shows two broad bodies of works in this exhibition, 'Text Landscape' and 'Text Play'. 'Text Landscape' is comprised of tiny texts in shape of Asian traditional landscape painting. 'Text Play' deconstructs the original meaning of the text and reconstruct into phonetic or orthographic characters.

In 'Love love, who says,' the overlapping of the texts creates perspective. The image also changes drastically according to the view point. Even though his drawings are based on the existing traditional landscape paintings, unlike its original authoritative and noble sentiment, he fills up the empty space with meaningless texts, which resonate new formative language.

'뇌출혈 natural,' the new work made during DOOSAN Residency Program, shows the relationship between the image and the text as well. Like hieroglyphic characters, from the first glance, the meaning of the text changes into a shape; however, on the contrary, the texts drawn by the brush imitates the image blurring the boundaries of the language from the playful point of view.

*뇌출혈 means cerebral hemorrarge, which phonetically pronounced 'nae-chool-hyul'.

Courtesy of Doosan Gallery