Past Exhibitions
Exhibition of the 2018 Lee Ungno Residence in Paris
Young-Jin Kim │ Parang │ Chan-Song Kim
The word ‘residence’ originates from the medieval French noun résidence, rooted in the Latin verb residere, meaning ‘to sit down’, ‘rest’, or ‘linger’. As it denotes the act of settling somewhere or the place of living, the word emphasises that one ‘stays’ at one location. Paradoxically, the premise of the Lee Ungno Residence in Paris is that one ‘departs’ to other places. Three artists in residence from Daejeon left Korea for the base camp at Vaux-sur-Seine in France. For three months between August to October of this year, they were on a pilgrimage to European art. Now, they have returned to tell us about their journey. Young-Jin Kim’s project expresses the invisible phenomena of memory using transparent materials. Parang assembles art that depicts the wildness she captured during her musings in nature. Chan-Song Kim's paintings portray the tension and the collapsing boundary between the subject and the other. These stories of artists who returned from a long journey and ‘sat down again’ will complete the true meaning of ‘residence’ and add a breath of fresh air to the city in which we reside.
Eunmin Lim Curator of the Lee Ungno Museum