Jeong Yun Kyung: Floating Paradox
Gallery Exit is pleased to present paintings by JEONG Yun Kyung 鈥楩loating Paradox鈥�, featuring works selected from a decade-long collaboration that traces the artist's remarkable evolution as she synthesises Eastern and Western artistic traditions through architectural precision and ethereal abstraction. This exhibition showcases works spanning ten years of partnership between the artist and Gallery EXIT, revealing how Jeong has developed her distinctive practice around axonometric projection鈥攁 technical drafting method she recontextualises through Eastern philosophy to create spatial paradoxes that interrogate cultural hybridity and reimagine the boundaries between reality and utopia.
The selected works reveal Jeong's mastery of axonometric projection, a technique that represents three-dimensional forms without perspective distortion, creating a 鈥榝loating鈥� effect where geometric structures and organic flows collide. Working intuitively yet with architectural precision, she transforms rigid orthographic projections into meditative landscapes where crystalline forms emerge from fog-like washes of paint. Her distinctive visual vocabulary鈥攔homboid grids dissolving into nebulous gradients, prismatic structures interlaced with rocky formations鈥攃reates what she calls 鈥榓rchitectural daydreaming鈥�, spaces that oscillate between flat patterns and volumetric depth. This synthesis reflects Daoist concepts of yin-yang, where opposites coexist interdependently, and Buddhist notions of interdependence, visualising a harmonious complexity in which cultural binaries dissolve.
This decade of artistic development reflects both technical innovation and deeply personal transformation. The evolution visible across the selected works鈥攆rom her early Axonometry series through recent explorations in Stone Planet and Archetype of Night鈥攖races her journey as a cultural interlocutor navigating between her Seoul origins and London education at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her shift from nocturnal to daylight painting, prompted by motherhood, parallels her philosophical journey, as Eastern cosmology's emphasis on subjective experience increasingly permeates her work. Each painting functions as a meditative provocation, inviting viewers to project their own narratives onto ambiguous forms that suggest both urban sprawl and celestial mappings, technological precision and natural growth.
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Gallery Exit is pleased to present paintings by JEONG Yun Kyung 鈥楩loating Paradox鈥�, featuring works selected from a decade-long collaboration that traces the artist's remarkable evolution as she synthesises Eastern and Western artistic traditions through architectural precision and ethereal abstraction. This exhibition showcases works spanning ten years of partnership between the artist and Gallery EXIT, revealing how Jeong has developed her distinctive practice around axonometric projection鈥攁 technical drafting method she recontextualises through Eastern philosophy to create spatial paradoxes that interrogate cultural hybridity and reimagine the boundaries between reality and utopia.
The selected works reveal Jeong's mastery of axonometric projection, a technique that represents three-dimensional forms without perspective distortion, creating a 鈥榝loating鈥� effect where geometric structures and organic flows collide. Working intuitively yet with architectural precision, she transforms rigid orthographic projections into meditative landscapes where crystalline forms emerge from fog-like washes of paint. Her distinctive visual vocabulary鈥攔homboid grids dissolving into nebulous gradients, prismatic structures interlaced with rocky formations鈥攃reates what she calls 鈥榓rchitectural daydreaming鈥�, spaces that oscillate between flat patterns and volumetric depth. This synthesis reflects Daoist concepts of yin-yang, where opposites coexist interdependently, and Buddhist notions of interdependence, visualising a harmonious complexity in which cultural binaries dissolve.
This decade of artistic development reflects both technical innovation and deeply personal transformation. The evolution visible across the selected works鈥攆rom her early Axonometry series through recent explorations in Stone Planet and Archetype of Night鈥攖races her journey as a cultural interlocutor navigating between her Seoul origins and London education at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her shift from nocturnal to daylight painting, prompted by motherhood, parallels her philosophical journey, as Eastern cosmology's emphasis on subjective experience increasingly permeates her work. Each painting functions as a meditative provocation, inviting viewers to project their own narratives onto ambiguous forms that suggest both urban sprawl and celestial mappings, technological precision and natural growth.
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