Gallery Playlist presents the three-person exhibition 《Curved Spacetime》(Gallery Playlist, 2024), featuring Minjung Key, Park Yerim, and Yang Jaju, from Saturday, November 23 to Saturday, December 28, 2024. This exhibition focuses on the journey through which the three artists explore the relativity of time and space through different materials and media.
The materials handled by the three artists, such as clay, sand, paper, and glass, go beyond simple tools of expression and function as media that weave layers and sensations of time, allowing viewers to experience the expansion of space-time within their works.
Minjung Key explores the boundary between fiction and reality through the heterogeneous materials of paper and glass, and visualizes the subtle movements and layers of sensation that arise in the process. She focuses on respecting the materiality inherent in each material as much as possible and revealing the sensations of the moment as they are.
Inspirations gained from literature, film, and everyday conversations lead to lingering impressions and reflection within her works, capturing passing moments and melting those sensations directly into the work, conveying to viewers the sensations of fleeting time and space.
Park Yerim depicts the primordial rhythm and depth of nature through sand and strokes of ink. The artist deeply explores the unique properties of sand to create distinctive surfaces and textures, and in that process seeks to capture the breath of nature.
In her works, the rhythm and movement created by the combination of sand and strokes are key elements, and the intensity given by waves that constantly ripple even within stillness and by solid earth harmoniously coexist on a single picture plane, drawing the viewer’s gaze.
Yang Jaju contains in her works the urban environment and the memories of places that disappear and change within it. Through various materials such as collected soil and traces of walls, she explores stories in which public space and personal memory are intertwined, and in the process presents experimental works that newly interpret the relationships among the city, humans, and nature.
The artist explores the unique materiality of these materials and sensuously expresses the traces left by the city and nature through the traces of time contained within them.
In this exhibition, while experiencing the moments of experimentation boldly unfolded by the artists and the textures of time they have built up, we enter a deep and expanded space where our memories and senses become entangled with the time flowing within the materials they have chosen. This space is like a place where forgotten sensations float, leading us into a dimension that is both familiar and new.
