Poster image of “Acceleration Point” © Art Center White Block
Art Center White Block presents a
two-person exhibition “Acceleration Point” by Jung Goyona and Jo Jae, through
February 9, 2025. The exhibition “Acceleration Point” features the dynamic
works of Jung Goyona and Jo Jae, two artists who work across mediums including
painting, sculpture, and video.
Exploring themes as diverse as figures,
daily life, landscapes, and abstract elements, “Acceleration Point” delves into
the intimate realm of personal experience with objects (subjects) by examining
the 'results,' or the outward images, that emerge through the process of
metaphor or representation. The exhibition seeks to uncover—if possible—the
invisible points of focus to which these artists are attuned.
Jung Goyona, The World as I See it, 2024 ©Art
Center White BlockThis exhibition juxtaposes the work of Jung Goyona, who constructs the concreteness of everyday life through staged scenes resembling still frames, prompting reflection on modes of living, with that of Jo Jae, who, in contrast, strips away concrete visual information to repeatedly construct and deconstruct imagery based on emotions triggered by external events detached from “self.”
Jo Jae, Summing up Flexibility 41, 2021 ©Art
Center White BlockThrough this contrast, the exhibition
explores contemporary artists' perspectives, showing the points at which they
“accelerate” in the process of constructing or dismantling their personal
“images,” rooted in their individual backgrounds and experiences.
These points provoke in viewers the
interactive and relatable simultaneous feelings that arise once one moves away
from the structural problems of seemingly contrasting causal factors – such as
everyday life and a specific incident, reality and fiction, and communication
and conflict.
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.
