“Beyond Window” Installation view ©DrawingRoomDrawingRoom presents a solo exhibition “Beyond Window” by Choi Yoo Jung (Ellie), through May 2.
DrawingRoom introduces Choi Yoo Jung (Ellie) as the 2024 artist selected for the [Supporting Emerging Artists’ Solo Exhibition], now in its sixth year. The Supporting Emerging Artists’ Solo Exhibition starts from the point where young artists exchange their feelings as they pass through contemporary society and consider what kind of story, they can tell through the images they draw and the exhibitions they create.
In this exhibition, the artist reveals her interest in the interior space between the virtual and the real through refined brushstrokes and concise compositions, exploring contemporary residential life and the individuality created by these environments through the anonymous figure who lives there and the view from his window.
Choi has experienced different countries and different types of interiors through her numerous moves abroad and in Korea. The artist’s attachment to living spaces becomes more interesting when combined with the element of Korean apartments. She captures the phenomenon of patterning a uniform way of life and finds the visual source of this phenomenon in apartments, which are maximized by repetitive horizontal and vertical elements. Apartments act as a framework for similarly structured hexahedra, forcing the residents to share similar patterns of life and similar emotions. Through their lack of movement toward the outside, they reveal the lack of diversity and relative deprivation in contemporary Korean life.
Home is the most private of all indoor spaces. Many modern people wear, use, and consume things that they did not make, but the home is the sum of all of them. It is the most personal place, made by others and passed by strangers. The artist explores the ironic nature of private space in the context of the post-COVID era, sharing the familiarity of personal life and the sentiment of isolation, while at the same time expressing the polarization of the age of over-communication through residential spaces.
