ACCESS BANGKOK ART FAIR
Dec. 4-7, 2024
ICONSIAM, 8F THE PINNACLE HALL
Booth no
A22 accompany
■Artist
JHR
Set Byul LI
Eun Sook JEON
Soo Kyoung LEE
J H R
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b. 1970
W www.artist-jhr.com
@artist__jhr
JHR’s projects explore the ways in which the problems we face in reality are dealt with in the virtual space.
Hyeryun JUNG(b.1977, S. Korea) has been creating material/non-material visual works with aspecial interest in the organic relationship humans develop with their environment. She completed her Ph.D.(2014) in Fine Arts at Pusan National University. Her main solo exhibitions include US2-Migration(Soma museum of art, Seoul, Korea, 2023), Treasure island(Rhee Seund Ja Jinju Art Museum, Jinju, Korea, 2020), Landscape of –1(L'H du Siege Art Center, France, 2019), and Serial Possibility-planet(HIGURE17-15cas, Japan, 2016). She has also participated in numerous projects and group exhibitions at home and abroad such as the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan(2018), Biennial InterAction NAPOLI(Made in Cloister, Napoli, Italy, 2023) and Kenpoku Art Triennale(Fukuroda Falls, Japan, 2016).
She received the First Soorim Art Award from Soorim Cultural Foundation(2017), was selected as a Young Sculptor of Today by Kim Chong Yung Museum(2012), and joined residency programs at L'H du Siege(Valenciennes, France, 2018) and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan, 2013).
US2 -MIGRATION
50x50cm_Pigment print_2024
ARTIST NOTE
US2-Migration
[US2-Migration]is a work that taps into media and actual real-time weather data. The current weatherb. has become a measure of our environment. I figured out the movement of virtual space previously constructed through US2 and visualized its form. This work is made up of continuous drawings. I try to turn it into a moving and reacting object by joining this drawing with a moving light. The image engendered by this moving light brings about its own rules and significance and creates a new order, repeating combination and dissolution like an organic life form on the virtual web.
US2 -MIGRATION
50x50cm_Pigment print_2024
US2 -MIGRATION
50x50cm_Pigment print_2024
US2 -MIGRATION
Dimensions variable_Mixed Media
(Wood, thread, ash)_2024
SET BYUL LI
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b. 1970
@ li_setbyul
Set Byul LI (b.1970, S. Korea) lives in Daejeon and works in Seoul.
Early on, the artist created paintings that intersect multiple layers of time and space through solo exhibitions such as ≪Green Catastrophe≫(2013), ≪Interface Scenery≫(2014),
and ≪Layerscape≫(2022). has been released, and has dealt with the theme of social tragedy and the evils of reality hidden behind the scenery.
The key themes in her works are ‘green’ and ‘the human.’ Green, which should represent life, a place of respite, and a source of regeneration, seeps and clings to the skin—a kind of green that emanates from a system of capital that has now become our natural domain. Because seeing is always filtered through the desires of the subject who looks, a gaze that is both distorted and captivated, she questions this through the act of placing various objects or effects onto the face. Through these reconstructed landscapes and altered human forms, he explores the anguish and ethical questions of existence that emerge from the contradictions of capitalism, such as the tension between the artificial and the natural, ecological crises, and the subject in a digital society.
ARTIST NOTE
Human Green Hue
Human Green Hue is an artwork that explores the notion of a new form of humanity, conceptualized during the pandemic, a period when human contact was restricted. Central to the piece is the discovery that the hand belongs to the other—an insight that triggers an alien, disorienting sensation which is key to the work. The face, which was once the sole interface of one’s identity, through th e hand of the other, and the interjection of new forces such as nature, objects, virtual realities and AI is redefined and reshaped by these new assailing forces. The image of the young woman serves as a symbol of an idealised humanoid form. In Human Green Hue, the “female” is the other to the “male”, the latter being those that desire what the world of capital desires. When worth must always be scrutinised for its exchange value, the shape and value of the human becomes hard to discern.
Human Green Hue
33.4x24.2cm_Oil on canvas_2022 _ EA
EUN SOOK JEON
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b.1980
@jeoneunhasu
Eun Sook JEON (b.1980, S. Korea) lives and works in Seoul.She lives and works in Seoul.
She completed her M.F.A.(2006), B.F.A.(2003) in Sungkyunkwan University. Her main solo exhibitions include ≪Fragments of Sensation≫(Space xx, Seoul, 2024), ≪Slow Move≫(JIDAM gallery, Seoul, 2024), ≪Pacho≫
(accompany, Busan, 2023), ≪Pipetting≫(Pyo gallery, online show).
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Jeon Eun-sook, an artist reminiscent of a TikToker in the art world, exudes an energy that bridges an anxious era with positivity. Her work blurs the line between realism that feels abstract, abstraction that feels realistic an improvisation that transcends boundaries, akin to an anthology of short stories where each scene carries its own distinct narrative.
The artist’s character, which dismantles preconceptions, is evident in every aspect of her paintings. She finds beauty even in the flowers blooming in the garden of a redevelopment apartment complex, revealing empathy for soon-to-disappear places and discovering urban gardens in their natural state, thriving only when untouched by human influence. It is a perspective that contrasts sharply with today’s sentiment, often dulled by excessive care or overbearing affection
… Amid urbanized art and paintings that elegantly embody modernity, Jeon Eun-sook's narrative captivates us with its unique yet primal perspective. Every corner of her studio holds a story, with colors that draw inspiration from all aspects of life.
The diverse range of subjects brings vibrant energy to her work, and her life spent moving between the city and islands has given her an exceptional ability to capture essence like no other artist. The keen wit evident in her work shines particularly as it embodies the stark contrast between life's expectations and their actual outcomes. Her paintings resemble a collection of life's ironies compiled as short stories, not for the sake of a polished narrative but to express a genuinely human language through color.
critique by Ahn Hyun-jung
Rippling peonies
91 x 65cm_Oil on canvas_2023
Peony (wrinkle practice)
91 x 65cm_Oil on canvas_2023
Peony
91 x 60.5cm_Oil on canvas_2023
Pipetting
65 x 50cm_Oil on canvas_2023
SOO KYOUNG LEE
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b. 1969
@soo_kyoung_lee
Soo Kyoung LEE (b.1969, S. Korea) lives in Paris and works in Paris, Brussels and Seoul. She is represented by Galerie Oniris in Rennes, MM Gallery in Brussels (Belgium) and Accompany in Busan (South Korea).
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Soo Kyoung LEE creates her work by accumulating, visualizing, and erasing various actions through momentary intuition and constant observation. When several layers are stacked as the finished work is erased and overlapped again, the background color and shape may turn into the main character or new shapes may be created on it again. In a plane, these layers produce infinite depth, repetitive time,
and rhythm.
ARTIST NOTE
My actions are not repetitions of familiar gestures, but traces that come out of my gut every moment. But the beginning of this first step is not the only thing that matters. I constantly observe, transform, overlap actions, add different forms to actions, and constantly come and go on the canvas. Through these steps, the shapes slowly begin to appear.
The constant round trip of my beginnings and actions is not accomplished by a specific will. These actions are being shaped in consideration of the perception, structure, and ratio of the range of the canvas plane. Rather than proceeding with a pre-constructed idea that you can know without experiencing it, it is to find such areas that are difficult to explain in everyday language that is not expected and imagined.
The aforementioned shapes are not those that can have a specific name. The shapes revealed in my work are formative structures in which clear colors are contrasted or harmonized, painted thick or thin. The shapes may be attached to a plane or hung tightly. They blend in and collide with each other to form a paradox, but they want to exist together on one plane.
As so many questionable moments accumulate, each work is completed. My work is to throw questions, not to give a one-way answer. Through my works, I want to share and communicate my doubts with the perspective of others who constantly question and look at them.
BASBC
35 x 27cm_Acrylic on canvas_2022
S2340 Olive
100 x 80cm_Acrylic on canvas_2023
S2340 Rouge
100 x 80cm_Acrylic on canvas_2023
BASR
35 x 27cm_Acrylic on canvas_2022
BASOM
35 x 27cm_Acrylic on canvas_2022