Kumho Museum

 The Kumho Museum of Art's special exhibition Surreal Encounter: Across the Realms is designed to awaken our new senses and expand our perception of space and time as we encounter familiar but unfamiliar scenes, ranging from urban, natural, and everyday landscapes to surreal spaces that alternate between reality and virtual reality.

Jeongsun Yoon embodies memories in the landscape of streets and neighborhoods she encounters every day, while Sunjoo Shin incorporates time and history into the architectural landscapes with striking black-and-white contrasts. In succession, Manna Lee paints a cityscape that seems like an unnoticed backdrop with an unfamiliar sense, while Sungwook Do creates fantastic forest spaces in order to make immaterial elements such as light and air visual. Moreover, Boyoung Jeong explores the subtle flows and traces of light at the boundaries between the inside and outside of buildings, and Eunyoung Song, focusing on interior spaces, explores the relationship between images that deviate from the principles of perspective and visual perception and invade each other's boundaries. Lastly, beginning with a self-written novel, Hyunmi Yoo shows how texts can be expressed as images within a painting space. The seven artists present their own spatial landscapes from different perspectives and methods. These diverse landscapes come together in one place to form another small world. As if taking a stroll, we hope this exhibition will give you time to take a moment to face this world, either up close or from a distance, as well as to freely explore and reflect on the space in your own unique way.

Moreover, the exhibition sheds light on the work of mid-career artists who play a pivotal role in the Korean art scene. The artists have refined their work over time by patiently forging their own paths. By exhibiting recent works as well as early works, the exhibition provides an opportunity to examine each artist's unique working tendencies and changes. At the same time, through their works, we aim to explore the possibilities of how much can be said and experiment with only working with a square canvas in today's art world, where expanded media and artworks that go beyond traditional form are dominated.​