Exhibition view of "Haneyl Choi, Manner" at Gallery2, Seoul, August 25 – October 1, 2022. Courtesy of Gallery2.
P21 and Gallery 2 present a solo exhibition “Manner” by the artist Choi Haneyl (b. 1991), an artist who focuses on expressing the form of the body through sculptural works and reimagines the future of sculpting by deconstructing its existing perceptions and concepts. The exhibition will be on view through October 1, 2022.
The artist believes that the position of the sculpture, which has been historically overshadowed by other art genres, especially paintings, is similar to that of LGBTQ community, which has been marginalized by society. By sculpting, assembling, and installing materials from ready-made to industrial materials such as urethane and iso-pink, Choi attempts to break the existing perception of social norms and order, cultural heritage, and gender issues by focusing on the subject matter of the body. With the idea that anything that can support itself can be a sculptural piece, he creates works that represent deformed body parts to imply the dichotomized world, such as normal and abnormal, the real and surreal, and softness and hardness.
The exhibition opens in two galleries with two separate spaces, Gallery 2 and P21. Choi’s oeuvres are unfolded like a binary decalcomania in the forms of normal and abnormal bodies, realistic and surreal, soft and rigid, engraved and embossed. They pair up and divide to reproduce like a fission of cells within a certain binary system.
