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Sun Choi

SUN CHOI

Wastewater Painting P21 29 August–7 October 2018 Seoul
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P21 is pleased to present ‘Wastewater Painting’, a solo exhibition by Sun Choi. Despite an extensive past career at non-profit organizations and institutions, this is his first solo exhibition at a commercial gallery.

Choi has continued to explore the nature and the meaning of true art, questioning conventional values and institutionalization of art. Choi’s work encourages viewers to reexamine the definitions of valid ‘artistic’ media and question whether the works of art are always original products of the artist. And in an attempt to invalidate the perpetuity of an artwork, Choi continues to remove the substance of the work.

In Interrupted Voyage, the salt made from North Korean sea water he collected in the north part of South Korea, gets scattered over the gallery space and then gets carried away via the audience’s bodies to different places outside of the gallery. By ‘sending the salt on a journey’, the artist actively attempts to ‘erase’ the work, embodying the ephemerality of an artwork.

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P21 was established in 2017 by Soo Choi. Located in Itaewon district, a cultural hub in Seoul, the gallery opened with an inaugural exhibition by Choi Jeong Hwa and continues to promote compelling and original examples of international contemporary art. P21 is known for its unique exhibition space with two separate facades, respectively named P1 and P2, that enable artists to create site-specific works.

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66, Hoenamu-ro
Yongsan-gu
Seoul
South Korea
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Tuesday – Friday
11am – 6pm

Saturday
12pm – 6pm
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Seoul 66, Hoenamu-ro, Yongsan-gu
P21 contemporary art gallery in Seoul South Korea
P21
66, Hoenamu-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
+82 2 790 5503
http://p21.kr

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday
11am – 6pm

Saturday
12pm – 6pm
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