“Guttation” Installation view at One and J Gallery ©One and J GalleryFrom June 23 to July 23, One and J Gallery presents Guttation, a solo exhibition by Seungyeol Oh (b. 1981). The title ‘Guttation’ means the phenomenon that some of the water absorbed by plants is released back into the leaves. The energy perceived in the guttation, the power of liberation and excretion generated when something is tied up and released, leads to the exhibition.
The exhibition focuses on the relationship between the frame of a painting and the image inside the frame. The works in the exhibition are not placed in three dimensions like sculptures or installations but are all placed flat on the wall. But the flat works do not remain within the frame, but expand, taking on a composition in which the image inside the frame scatters into the space outside the frame. In < Interval Periphery > (2023), the artist changes the role of the white walls of the exhibition space by creating frames on the entire wall, while < Fortuitous Sonority > (2023) the shape of the frame is drawn inside the canvas. The works, which are clearly framed but also move out of and over the frame, create their own rhythm and energy.
In this way, Seungyeol’s works fill the exhibition space with movement and fluidity, providing the viewer with new sensations.
