THEO presents The Blue Horizon, a solo exhibition by Eunju Kim from 3 to 23 February 2024.
Where sky and sea meet
In the windless zone near the equator, the sea is an azure surface with only a few wispy clouds floating above it, and the blue sky encompasses the surface. Thus, the blue horizon, where sky and sea meet, is clearly the sky above and the sea below. You can only guess, but you can't tell, and you see no reason to. On the blue horizon, where the sky and the sea blend together and it's hard to tell the difference, the visual elements that we rely on are useless, and we can only barely accept the boundary through the process of sensing light itself. In this way, the exhibition proposes a 'time of tranquility' where the viewer can experience light in a variety of ways.
The artist's blue horizon, waves, and multi-coloured feast of light, which resemble the calmness of the horizon between the sky and the sea in the middle of winter, are a record of the most comforting moments in the artist's experience. Everyone has moments of tranquility that they want to remember and cherish for a long time. For the artist, the horizon, which resembles an endless expanse of tranquility, was a medium to calm his mind and escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and he was healed by the shimmering light and rippling water. However, like all things fleeting, most of these moments are transitory and volatile, and it is these moments that Kim captures and perpetuates through her work.
For a long time, the horizontal state has been regarded as the most stable state and a symbol of balance. I hope that the viewers who visit and stay for a while will also feel the dense and enveloping feeling of the waves on the horizon where the sky and the sea meet, and will find inner tranquility.
* Eunju Kim (b. 1993): The artist has been studying the material of light, which is essential to the perception of matter, from the perspective of particles and waves, so that we can feel the things that stay and disappear in a moment through her works. The particles and waves of light in her works express various material sensations with various colours, and through this process, her waves of light begin with a sense of the 'invisible world' and then move on to reach the 'visible world'.
Press release courtesy THEO.
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