Sejong Museum Gallery

Kim Young-soo's Invitational Exhibition

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Exhibition Introduction

Sejong Museum Gallery Curator Kim Min-jeong

Sejong University (President Bae Deok-hyo) Sejong Museum Gallery is hosting a special exhibition by Kim Young-soo, who materializes abstract content and sensually expresses the invisible.

This invitational exhibition will feature around 40 works, including the 'Crack' series, which is an extension of the 'Inherent Symbol' series that began in 2017, but also shows a completely new approach in terms of form. It will be open for free from July 17 to August 4 (the invitational exhibition period has been extended to August 18) at the Sejong Museum Gallery 1 (B1) of the Ocean AI Center in Sejong University.

Her unique technique of mixing pigments and mediums on canvas to create deliberate cracks through chemical effects anticipates the effect of chance in her work, exploring complex themes that move between necessity and chance, action and inaction, intentional artifice and randomness.

Art critic Kim Seong-ho analyzes that the artist's work crosses over Freud's and Lacan's concepts of the unconscious. If Freud viewed the unconscious as a world where the instincts and impulses of the repressed subject operate, Lacan understands the unconscious as a world structured like language. Kim Young-soo's 'Crack' series reflects this Lacanian perspective, and he commented that the unconscious is not simply latent, but appears as a 'structural creation' that is revealed through deconstruction and restructuring.

A representative of the Sejong Museum Gallery said, “All the things that have oxidized and scattered innumerable places on this land are traces of you and me, of us who lived yesterday. What has been abandoned underfoot is merely forgotten, but countless records of life that will not disappear. The artist wants to testify to those things that lived brilliantly and eventually return to the soil, using the discarded charcoal crumbs and soil.”

 2024.7.17