Known for her intense visual imagery based in architectural-scale grandeur and meticulous aesthetic sensibility, Jae-Eun Choi’s oeuvre spans diverse disciplines including sculpture, installation, architecture and film. Choi’s work springs from an innovative interpretation of space and the relationship between life and nature and has since expanded its parameters through an experimental approach that combines art and science. She continues to utilize an array of techniques to explore issues of time and existence. In 2016, Choi participated in the 56th Venice Architecture Biennale with her recent project “Dreaming of Earth,” which aims for the eternal and sustainable peace in the De-militarized Zone in Korea and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Jae-Eun Choi’s work is widely collected by the world’s prestigious museums, including Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul and National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic.
Read MoreBorn in Seoul, Korea in 1953, Choi immigrated to Japan in the mid-1970s and has lived there since. In Tokyo, she enrolled in the Sogetsu School, where she studied Ikebana (the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement). Her training there in the spatial relationship of organic forms became the foundation for her visual arts practice. Choi was exposed to a variety of media and styles and it was these early encounters with both Japanese and international artists that eventually led her to look beyond the traditional techniques and practices in which she was trained.
Text courtesy Kukje Gallery.
