▲ Pop Kids #126, Oil on canvas, 150x150cm, 2023 ⓒ Khalifa Gallery

Korean contemporary artist, Choi Yunjung holds a solo exhibition, 'I paint therefore I am.'

Choi is a contemporary Korean artist who presents conceptual art by reproducing solid paintings and pop art images.

As an artist, she continues to scrutinize contemporary people by thinking and asking questions about the media and human desires that affect human thinking in modern society.

▲ Pop Kids #120, Oil on canvas, 200x200cm, 2022 ⓒ Khalifa Gallery

The artist shows two interpretations of desire through this exhibition. One is a message about aspects of modern people's lives that are closely related to the media through the 'Pop Kids' series.

Pop Kids is a series designed to express the present, and it contains the artist's values and thoughts on human desires to focus on the present. Glasses in the work symbolize the frame, indicating the frame of thought that modern people are affected by.

▲ Folds, #19, Oil on canvas, 53x53cm, 2023 ⓒ Khalifa Gallery

Second, through the 'Folds' series, which abstractly expresses the shape of wrinkles, the will to exist in life itself was interpreted as desire, and the image was stylized.

"Folds" is a series that stylizes the forms of wrinkles that exist in nature and artifacts, and was produced with the idea that life and objects in the world may harbor a desire for existence.

▲ Folds, #18, Oil on canvas, 53x45cm, 2023 ⓒ Khalifa GalleryThe artist sheds light on modern people's lives and how substances, including life, exist through two series. She wanted to visualize new energy in that a substance called canvas meets other substances, such as paint, and is expressed as energy overlapping continuously for a long time.

The exhibition will run until Mar. 30 at Khalifa Gallery in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

Sayart / Nao Yim, yimnao@naver.com