23/05/2026
With three women artists, all alumni of Seoul National University, the exhibition presents, ‘moments spreading into a whole,’ ‘A space where past and future breathe together,’ and ‘a sophisticated language of the future.’
Lee Hye min uses materials that are soft, familiar, and at times solid to express our inner
emotions where weakness, strength, softness and hardness coexist. Those expressions
awakens a perspective to our memories and experiences, something that can be friendly
and familiar.
Joo So-won is currently receiving international attention for the remarkable usage of metal craftsmanship and contemporary jewelry. She tells the “story of natural growth and life itself.” Through the medium of ornament, she transforms dramatic moments into delicate melodies. The beautiful imaginations of the viewers translated into the language of the future.
Heo Seung hee expresses the beauty and delicacy she had encountered through years of
research on restorations of cultural properties. Those are unveiled with contemporary freshness, tranquility, and aesthetic appeal, achieved via the theme of ‘Expansion Era: Overlapping, Reconstruction of Time.’ This theme merges painterly corroboration with reality, expressed through modern interpretation and future vision.
Tradition, memory, and functionality are transformed into a medium for ‘contemporary psychological narratives,’ freeing the audience from being mere followers of a story to becoming beings who ‘swim through time’.” Layers of overlapping time, reaching towards a futuristic sensibility. The act of ‘perceiving traditional objects’—such as pillows, Norigae
(traditional Korean ornaments), and ceramics—achieves a temporal reversal, calling the future
To reach the present. The present, again, leads to new moments via familiarity.
Memory is varied into the language of the future, approach as architectural imagery,
sculptures, and minimalist objects. Art, craft, and design techniques are thus unbound and
integrated.
This unfolding of time that is both transparent and blooming, culminates in an exhibition where three artists ‘translate time into s