Credit Curated by ThisWeekendRoom
 Supported by Korea Arts Management Service Text｜Jaewoo Ahn
 Print | DB Print Woodwork | Hongik Furniture Frame | Green Art Photograph｜Jeongwoo Lee, Youngho Jeong Not all mirrors are in your bathroom, car or cosmetics case. Some of them do not reflect light at all, and yet provide you with a reflection whose accuracy is much higher than what you see in the cleanest looking glass. Recall the day your eyes first met the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and how the visible verse led you towards observing the invisible facets of your identity. 

This Weekend Room presents Far in My Mirror, with hopes that Sangwon Kwak and Shinyoung Park’s works will serve their appreciators the opportunity to take a better look at and converse with their respective identities. Kwak uses his charcoal, acrylic paints and oil paints to depict scenes of selfhood embedded in environments which may be unfamiliar to the s/Self, from raw nature to surrealist spaces. By doing so, the works can be understood as non-verbal statements on self-self, self-environment and environment-environment relations, which eventually present us with the occasion of pondering on how one’s being is shaped and reshaped through the perpetual dialectic between the elements of each relation. 

Meanwhile, Park’s engravings, paintings and sculptures are representations of juxtaposing and dissolving images from one room of her memory with and into those from another, where the two rooms are online experiences and offline ones, respectively. To be more specific, when an image she sees online reminds her of an image from her offline experiences, especially from the ones she has accumulated over her journeys through Europe, Africa and North America, and vice versa, she enters her studio when the connection between the images is significant enough for her to make an artistic effort on it. The process results in a dreamy representation of the connection: While dreams are what we undergo when our minds unconsciously process our memories, Park’s connections invite her consciousness to the party, and therefore can be understood as an attempt to consciously visualize a few hidden aspects of the human gem, thus inspire us to cultivate a more accurate and profound perspective on who we are.

 Exhibiting the works of the two artists, the gallery invites you to the island of misfit mirrors. A bit far from the ones you already have, yet which can take you into the deepest of your reflection. 

 Text｜Jaewoo Ahn (Independent Curator)