The gallery, FIM, which opened this August with a mission to discover and showcase talented young artists, is presenting a two-person exhibition, “Silent Noise,” featuring works by Melody Park and Sujin Lee, until November 30.

As FIM’s second curated exhibition, “Silent Noise” brings together the contrasting yet harmonious paintings of Melody Park and Sujin Lee.

Melody Park focuses on the diverse expressions of color influenced by thickness, viscosity, texture, and density. Using materials of varying particle sizes, such as pigment powders, paste paints, and drawing stones, she explores and expresses her unique approach to color.

In this exhibition, she focuses on the auditory environment of her studio as a key element in her work. In the midst of various noises that fill her studio—such as airplanes, delivery trucks, and the sounds of birds and insects—she visualizes the direction and movement of these sounds, expressing invisible dynamic energy and the rhythm of color.

Meanwhile, Sujin Lee works on describing and naming the negative emotions she encounters in reality in her works. She faces anxiety and fear, which have roots in her personal experiences and intensified during the pandemic, in an uncertain and unpredictable reality by choosing images that evoke similar emotions in movies (in genres such as thriller, mystery, and horror) and preserving such emotions on the canvas.

“Silent Noise”
2024.10.24 – 2024.11.30
Tue-Sat 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
FIM
2F, 11 UN village-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea

Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.