Jiyoung Son, Tree like Mountains, 2023, Oil on canvas, 40.9 x 31.8cm ©PAGEROOM8PAGEROOM8 is pleased to present Schattenwald, a solo exhibition by artist Jiyoung Son (b. 1980), on view from October 20 to November 12.
Jiyoung Son has been exploring the relationship between the visible and the invisible in her paintings and three-dimensional works. In this exhibition, she focuses on the experience of seeing a three-dimensional object, a mountain, in the dark after sunset. After sunset, the mountain becomes like a flat shadow, and Son focuses on phenomena such as light and darkness, reality and shadow, which cross over between the three-dimensional and the flat.
In the exhibition, viewers can see paintings that reproduce nighttime landscapes by applying several layers of Prussian blue oil paint, and sculptures that imagine a cross-section of a mountain. In the case of the sculptures, which are based on Bukhansan and Inwangsan that can be seen in PAGEROOM8, the artist cuts the actual sculptures to expose the cross-sections of the sculptures while imagining the cross-sections of the mountain. In this way, viewers can see Son’s variations on flat and three-dimensional, visible and invisible.
