About

Sooim Jeong relocates a combination of past memories into the quotidian places around her, for example: a small incidental weed growing on the top of a wall that she walks past on the way to her studio, or other such surroundings from her daily routine, are contrasted against significant events from her past, often of a brutal or traumatic nature. Using minimal brushstrokes and spare, sensitive colour palettes, she creates oil paintings that play with composition and metaphor - relocating human figures in remembered and imagined spaces, and often abstracting and de-identifying them through …