Galerie N is pleased to announce Dwelling in a Space, a solo exhibition of Korean artist Gi-ok Jeon.  Gi-ok will present a series of her recent paintings, a site-specific installation, and woodcut print experiment. 

Gi-ok has been developing her themes around identity, alienation, woman and relation as she seeks her genuine identity in a relationship in a new place.   As a foreign artist, woman and mother living in Thailand, Gi-ok has depicted her experience of separation from her home country and adaptation to a new culture by fusing traditional Thai fabrics, known as ‘Patoong,’ with traditional Korean (East Asian) brush painting.  Notably, as a way of fusing between the two cultures, she focuses on juxtaposing the images of her mixed-race daughter with various patterned patoongs in a seemingly non-gravitated space.

In this exhibition Gi-ok also presents a shadow installation of birdcage like figures which resonates relation between three-dimensional objects and their two-dimensional representations, and tension between reality and illusion.  Also she introduces her new experiment of woodcut prints that connects her sustaining theme.

About the Artist

Gi-ok Jeon has an MFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.  Her works have been shown in various group and solo exhibitions, including, most recently, POINTfeed Project at Gallery Boda in Seoul.  She lectured on Oriental Painting and Chinese Ink Brush during her artist-in-residency at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.