PROMENADES IN LIGHT

Friedrichs Pontone | New York

13 FEBRUARY 2025 - 30 MARCH 2025

The Ansan series brings Soowhan’s small woodland hometown in South Korea to life. The negative space left between the lit-up sky produces the image of wild, twisting trees. Similarly, his Forest series depicts the mountainous Bukhansan National Park, placing the viewer within the forest atmosphere. Soowhan’s elaborate images of waterfalls and bo...

A POSITIVE ABSENCE

PONTONE GALLERY | London

04 JUNE 2022 - 17 JULY 2022

Soowhan’s templates are photographs. From a distance this looks like a photographic exhibition, however, the viewer realizes that they are in the realm of the hard-won sculptural object. It quickly becomes apparent how much painstaking skill has been deployed in effecting these pieces. They are imbued with a level of intensity and commitment that c...

WALK IN EMPTINESS

Bongsan Cultural Center | Daegu

28 JULY 2021 - 03 OCTOBER 2021

기억 공작소Ⅲ『최수환』展 어둠속에서 빛을 바라본다. 손에 잡힐듯한 선명한 빛은 반짝임을 넘어 부유하는 이미지로 시각적 환영을 연출한다. 빛으로 형상된 풍경의 이미지들은 보는 이의 움직임 혹은 빛의 발산에 따라 유기적으로 변화되고 입체, 원근, 사실 등 다양한 조형적 요소들을 구체화 시키며 비실제적인 공간으로 빠져들게 한다. 화려한 빛의 향연을 보고 있는 순간 문뜩 무엇을 보고 있는 것일까? 라는 인공의 빛에 대한 실존적 의문을 가지게 한다. 전원을 끄면 아무것도 없는 어둠일 공간에서 실존의 부재를 느끼는 순간, 모든 것이 허상으로 다가온다. 보이지 않는 어둠의 공간에서 오히려 감각의 예민함을 회복하며 사물에 대한 공정...

COMPLEX EMPTINESS

PONTONE GALLERY | London

10 OCTOBER 2019 - 03 NOVEMBER 2019

In a virtuoso display of painstaking craftsmanship, Korean artist Choi Soowhan devises compelling three-dimensional images of plants, waterfalls, waves, and landscapes. These monochromatic pieces, with their dramatically-contrasting, ink-dark shadows and dazzling pinpoints of light, convey a brooding intensity. His evocations of the natural world e...

Walk in Emptiness

PYO GALLERY | Seoul

16 DECEMBER 2016 - 20 JANUARY 2017

Although recognition through eyes plays a considerable part in understanding the essence of objects amongst other methods, visual recognition could only reach fragments of the truth. Why would only the parts and pieces of the truth or essence be visible? Could what we see be a mere reflection of what we wish to see? Or are we just looking at the su...