Ho-seok Hwang: Walking People 72.7 x 72.7 cm | Oil on canvas | 2023
Vidi Gallery | April 15 – May 19
Vidi Gallery is proud to present Spring of Contemplation: Dwelling in the Season, a group exhibition featuring the works of Kwang-sik An, Guk-hee Yoon, Hyo-youn Lee, and Ho-seok Hwang.
Set within a temporal space where the season lingers, this exhibition traces the unfolding of thought through the lens of duration.
The works emerge from the intersection of nature, memory, and affect, proposing distinct perceptual forms that unsettle our everyday familiarity.
Through chromatic residues and iterative structures, the artists reconfigure perception—rendering the habitual strange and disclosing the latent meanings embedded within the overlooked.
Here, the image is not merely a representation but a depth of feeling that surfaces only through the patient act of dwelling.
Kwang-sik An
Kwang-sik An’s practice articulates a poetics of light, refracting memory and sensation into painterly form.
For An, nature is a distanced object of longing, internalized through recollection rather than immediate presence.
His near-achromatic tonalities dissolve into expanses of white, creating a perceptual state of suspension.
Rooted in the material logic of East Asian painting, his work is structured through an accumulative process where oil paint seeps into grounds built from stone powder and gesso.
This sedimentation produces a translucent depth, suggesting interior strata.
In this economy of absence, the Korean sensibility of wildflowers and vessels is expressed through subtraction—leaving behind a powerful affective charge that resists temporal decay.
Kwang-sik An: Nature-diary
72.7 x 60.6 cm | Oil and stone powder on canvas | 2024
Guk-hee Yoon
Guk-hee Yoon engages the organic as a site where affect, memory, and temporality converge.
Flowers and plants function as vessels for the rhythms of repetition and transformation, marking cycles of emergence and disappearance.
Within these structures, Yoon inscribes subjective states, using color as a primary modality to measure emotional temperature and capture experiences that exceed language.
By deploying a fluid range of mixed media—from the translucency of watercolor to the density of gouache and acrylic—she disrupts traditional constraints.
In the Blossom Colorful Things series, layered colors construct immersive fields that oscillate between interior landscapes and external forms, proposing spaces for temporary inhabitation.
Hyo-youn Lee: A Moment Beyond
90.9 x 72.7 cm | Oil on canvas | 2025
Hyo-youn Lee
Hyo-youn Lee interrogates the conditions under which a world is constituted within a painting, rejecting the binary between the real and the unreal.
Her work stages their coexistence through scenes derived from daily experience, reconfigured via calibrated shifts in distance and scale that destabilize the familiar.
The conceptual locus of "Macondo" serves as a heterotopic site where personal memory and collective narrative intersect, organizing time through repetition rather than linearity.
Within this framework, repetition generates variation rather than stability. Lee treats painting as a discursive platform where thought is produced, sustaining a plurality of readings through the dynamic interplay of pattern and deviation.
Guk-hee Yoon: Blooming in Summer—Everyone’s Garden
91 x 116.8 cm | Watercolors on paper | 2024
Ho-seok Hwang
Ho-seok Hwang attends to the unnoticed—those fleeting moments and affects that typically dissipate within the flow of time.
His work begins with the collection of ephemeral fragments, which are translated into painterly form as a type of mnemonic notation.
By foregrounding the minor as a constitutive element of life, Hwang suggests that what is most easily overlooked forms the very texture of lived experience.
The pictorial surface becomes a site where relational affects are reconstructed and rearticulated.
By holding onto fragments that would otherwise vanish, Hwang reassigns value to the transient, transforming individual narratives into a shared conduit for collective contemplation.
Ho-seok Hwang: Turning Off the Light 65 x 45.5 cm | Oil on canvas | 2021
Ho-seok Hwang: Walking People
72.7 x 72.7 cm | Oil on canvas | 2023
