CHOI Eunjeong

When running against a certain scene in daily space, I forget myself in material senses. At this moment, some forms and images which awaken the past memories and forgotten emotions are overlapped in my sub-consciousness, a detailed landscape concealed in my inside is temporarily experienced.

In my work, the landscape is derived from the fantastic desire for the nature and the stereotyped landscapes in consciousness are continuously deconstructed: my own self is reflected through the reverse side of invisible landscape recombined in my inside. As Gaston Bachelard said that one material is a soul state before it becomes a landscape and the psychological growth is accomplished in the inner scape, the landscape, an ideal and perfect space imagined by me, is the contemplative space which cannot be composed in reality: it is the Mindscape rather than the objective form of Landscape.

Most of formal features found in my works have a certain architectural structure and consist of controversial modes of nature and art. Such a special structure means not only a space not shown in a drawing, though practically exist in the architecture, but also something borrowed and grafted, which does not exist in the real world. I had and intention to lookout a possibility for other world by going beyond the world only composed of surfaces through a combination of natural composition and artificially created structure, based on crosses among innumerable lines and planes. In addition, daily routines and portions of memory around us are unexpectedly structured, suggesting the Heterotopian space because they serve as symbolic rings through which the spaces existing somewhere in the unconsciousness are connected. The Heterotopian space causes crack in the reality closed stubbornly and encourages awakening the possibility of other world.
Although we seem to observe an actual integument when we are looking at an object, in fact, our hidden desires are elaborated and cultivated through dense drawing in which we intensively dig into trees and plants exhibited at our pictures, as our desires to see the reality are expressed behind the integument. Thus, the hetero-ecotopia, the ideal space dreamed by myself is desired through the elaboration and cultivation.

CHOI Eunjeong
Born in 1980, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION
2014 Ph.D, Candidate, Hongik University, Fine Arts, Seoul, Korea
2008 M.F.A., Hongik University, Fine Arts, Seoul, Korea
2004 B.F.A., Incheon Catholic University, Fine Arts, Incheon, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2015 THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, Art Company GIG, Seoul, Korea
2013 Ecotopia: Unfamiliar Landscape, KEPCO Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2016 The 5th Ghasong Art Award: Summer Saeng-Saek, Ara Arts center, Seoul, Korea
2016 The 6th Seoul Digital University Art Prize, Seoul Digital University, Seoul, Korea
2015 SOMA DRAWING: Mindful Mindless, Soma Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 Urban Gatherers, Space K, Daegu, Korea
2014 The 36th Jooongang Fine Arts Prize, Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2014 The 4th Art Factory Project, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2013 Window of Aisa: Korea, Thailand International Exchange Exhibition, Bupyeong Arts Center, Incheon, Korea
2013 Pre-Drawing Biennale-Competition Exhibition: ’Drawing, Birth of Thinking’, White Block Gallery, Paju, Korea