2024 Kiaf

GalleryMEME

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2024 Kiaf

GalleryMEME

10 days left

GalleryMEME is pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming Kiaf 2024.
We are excited to showcase a special collection of works by artists JUNG Jungyeob, JEONG Zik Seong, LEE Kiyoung, KWON Inkyung, KIM Syyoung, William LEE, KAITO Itsuki and JHU. We look forward to your interest and anticipation. ——— ​4-8 September. 2024 Coex, Seoul GalleryMEME Booth : Hall A, A42 Featured Artists:
정정엽 JUNG Jungyeob
Jung Jungyeob is an artist who has been leading a Korean feminist art movement through a feminist and ecological perspective with painting, installation, performance. The artist's views on labor and life, drawn from everyday objects like red beans and spring herbs, extend further into a narrative about coexistence with all living beings. • 2022 Lee Joong Seop Art Awards • 2020 Gender Equality and Culture Awards • 2018 Goam Leeungno Art Awards • Collections: MMCA, Seoul Museum of Art, etc.
Sprout 7, 2015, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 140x260cm
정직성 JEONG Zik Seong
Jeong Zikseong has pushed painting boundaries, from her geometric abstract urban landscapes to her "Modern Mother-of-Pearl Painting" series with Korean symbolism. Recently, she’s explored works where psychological layers emerge from brushstrokes flowing in response to atmospheric changes. • 2021 Artist of the Year, Gongindang Arts Foundation, Arts Grand Prize • Collections: MMCA, Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art etc.
Water-moon Avalakiteshvara 202427, 2024, Acyrilc and oil on canvas, 193.9x130.3cm
이기영 LEE Kiyoung
Lee Kiyoung builds layers of time, action, and thought on the canvas. His process begins with filling a Korean paper canvas with text, then erasing it. This act of rubbing and wiping is governed by a tension between intuitive and active resolution of accidental visual chaos. The final stage, where lines are carved with a sharp tool and filled with pigments, demands a state of deep immersion. The result is a layered surface that remains flat, smooth, and soft.
Subsequent answer3123, 2023, 165x120cm, Ink cake pigment mixed media on Korean paper
권인경 KWON Inkyung
Artist Kwon Inkyung creates ambiguous yet powerful urban landscapes where disparate dimensions blend together using various materials such as old book collages, ink cake, and acrylic paints. These surreal landscapes, born from fragmented spatial images and disjointed memories from different time frames, activate the circuits of imagination hidden within everyone, allowing them to experience a fantastic collage that flows beyond the boundaries of consciousness. • Collections: MMCA, etc.
An open window, 2023, 135x197cm, Mixed media on Korean paper (Acrylic, Collage, Ink cake)
KIM Syyoung
Kim Syyoung focuses on the transformation brought about by the combination of 'fire,' a natural force, and the 'mineral content within the clay' in order to revive traditional black porcelain. Going beyond traditional paradigms of ceramics, he experiments with material properties by collecting and combining soils from across the country to unveil the mysterious colors inherent in the clay, thereby modernly inheriting the elegance of traditional black porcelain.
Planet TL_21, 2024, 1350˚C reduction firing, natural soil, 50x51cm
William LEE
William LEE seeks to find a Korean aesthetic by exploring the beauty of tradition intertwined with contemporary relevance. Using the cold, metallic properties of his materials, he captures textures that flow, melt, and sometimes seem to be swept away, akin to human emotions and natural changes. His moon jars, created using a hammering technique on silver plates, embody a strength that is both gentle and steadfast, yet delicate. • Collections : Victoria and Albert Museum(London) etc.
Dok, 2022, Silver, 31x41cm
皆藤 齋 Kaito Itsuki
Kaito Itsuki deconstructs the presence of transcendent heroes in myths and fills their place with shame and fear. In Japanese society, where stricter etiquette is demanded of women, she portrays societal roles imposed upon us from outside our bodies through improper, immoral, and violent images. • 2024 Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing • 2022 HIVE Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing • 2021 Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Treed Codependency (Belts and two embryos), 2023, Oil and charcoal on canvas, 91×72.7 cm
최주열 JHU
JHU creates landscapes filled with bizarre combinations of symbols, texts, and objects, turning the ambiguity of language into a journey through imaginative worlds. His art features doodle-like brushwork, naive shapes, and boldly colored canvases, which rather than conveying specific messages, serve as emotional playgrounds for the viewer's imagination. This approach highlights a unique interpretation of visual and textual symbols, emphasizing emotional engagement over literal interpretation.
서울 Seoul, 2024, Mixed media on canvas, 162.2x130.3cm