Exhibition poster image of “Kayoung Choi: Furutsu,” Gallery Chosun, Seoul. (November, 28 – December 19, 2023). Courtesy of the artist and the gallery.
Kayoung Choi, an artist who majored in traditional Korean painting, expresses unexperienced romance and staged fantasies based on questioning the relationship between reality and the ideal. Recently, she has been contemplating ways to interpret and express the relationship between reality and the ideal, focusing on the theme of “survival strategy.”
Her solo exhibition, “Furutsu,” taking place at Gallery Chosun, drew inspiration from the Japanese pronunciation of the English word ‘Fruits.’ Through paintings and installation works depicting tropical plants and fruits, the artist reproduces the mechanism of desire in reality. Choi highlights how the vibrant images of tropical plants and fruits express a certain fantasy and examines how they are consumed in reality.
Born in 1989, Choi majored in Oriental Painting at Seoul National University and obtained a master’s degree from the same university’s graduate school. She has participated in solo exhibitions at venues in Seoul, such as the Geumho Art Museum (2022), Art Space Hyeong (2020), and the Government Seoul City Hall Gallery (2018), as well as numerous group exhibitions in Korea.
Following the conclusion of the exhibition, a related exhibition titled Furutsu Jelly is scheduled to take place on December 23 at the Osiseon exhibition space in Seongsu-dong.
