금호미술관
Song Sumin / 21st (2023)
Song Sumin
artssm93@naver.com
www.songsumin.com
2024 The Gaze in the Smoke, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
2021 Unexpected Situation, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2021 Silent Turbulence, Artspace Boan1, Boan1942, Seoul
2020 Where ○○ Stayed, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 White Traces, Art Side Gallery, Seoul
2018 Plastic Foliage, Space55, Seoul
2018 膜: Veiled Landscape, Art Space Seoro, Seoul
2023 The Gaze of Moments, Stroll Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 Drawing-Growing, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul
2023 Eternal Romantic Flowers, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang
2022 AP5: The Landscape of Gaps — between, behind, beyond, Mimesis Art Museum, Paju
2022 Living Gap, One and J. Gallery, Seoul
2021 Humming to the Sound of Fear, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2021 Strange City, Arriving People, Some Stories, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2021 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Chapter Two, Seoul
2020 Kumho Art Studio 15th Residency Exhibition: Another Night, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
2020 Mindscape, Ian Art Space, Seoul
2019 Kumho Art Studio 14th Residency Exhibition: Nameless Words, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 In White Space, Art Side Gallery, Seoul
Residencies
2021 Cheongju Museum of Art — Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2018 Kumho Museum of Art — Kumho Art Studio, Icheon
2023 Selected for the 21st Kumho Young Artist, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
2021 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Creative Support Program, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul
2019 Selected for the 2020 OCI Young Creative, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
Using images collected in diverse ways, Sumin Song rearranges shapes with conflicting meanings by connecting them through formalistic similarities. The artist has explored the subject of smoke since the beginning of her career. She innovatively contextualizes landscapes by flexibly overlapping the shapes of smoke. One might recognize them simultaneously as symptoms of disaster and war and as natural objects such as flowers. In so doing, she captures on screen the atmosphere of an era where daily life and catastrophe coexist. In this exhibition, Song tells her innermost stories by addressing her recent experiences while parenting her child. By figuratively weaving the flowers, nature, and the child's doodles she encounters daily with icons of disaster, such as flames and smoke, she reveals her perception and feelings about the coexistence of routine life and calamity.