Suncheon Mid-Career Artist Pyo Seungeun Presents Her 10th Solo Exhibition, "Fragments of Longing"

Expressing inner time and memories through the textures of hanji and wood

Artist Pyo Seungeun is presenting the artistic world she has developed over the years, along with new artistic changes, in her tenth solo exhibition, "Fragments of Longing."

The exhibition opens at 5 p.m. on November 13 at Dada Gallery, located at 14 Yeongdong-gil, Suncheon.

Poster for artist Pyo Seungeun's solo exhibition.

The exhibition is significant in that, marking her tenth solo show, the artist looks back on her work and captures a time of renewed creativity after a long hiatus.

In her early work, Pyo explored subjects including the faces and life struggles of grandmothers, life and death, and children's innocent laughter and memories. Her artistic direction has gradually changed since then. While her 2024 work focused on dots, in 2026 it expanded to lines, time, and space.

In this exhibition, she draws on the image of a tree but goes beyond simply depicting the subject. She projects her inner unconscious and emotions, which lie beyond its form, onto the canvas and expresses them in new forms.

At the heart of her work are the various "textures" that exist between hanji, trees, the sky, and people. She creates forms by drawing out the texture of hanji and tearing and pasting it by hand. She leaves empty space in the background to create compositions that move across the boundaries between ink and space, and between fullness and emptiness.

The artist describes the exhibition as one to be felt and empathized with, rather than merely viewed. She focused on connecting and communicating with visitors through the process by which intangible emotions take tangible form through her hands.

"I hope you can take a moment to rest amid works that are complex yet simple, delicate yet unconcerned," Pyo said. "I hope this exhibition will allow visitors to follow the textures in the works, encounter their own memories and longings, and breathe together."

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