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Artist Cho Hyo Ri: Illusory Virtual Spaces Beyond the Canvas
Cho Hyo Ri (b. 1992) has developed a painting practice that intersects seemingly opposing elements—reality and virtuality, three-dimensionality and flatness, materiality and illusion—within a single frame, evoking uncanny sensations and imaginative experiences. Her work connects three axes: the illusory virtual space within the painting, the viewer’s physical movement in real space, and the time in which the virtual and the real intersect. Through this, she invites the viewer to imagine movement and spatial depth beyond the stillness of the pictorial surface.
2025.06.30
Exhibitions
“Rehearsing Transformation” on View Through June 7, 2026, at Incheon Art Platform
Incheon Art Platform presents a special exhibition 《Rehearsing Transformation》 on view through June 7. Rehearsing Transformation is an exhibition centered on contemporary sculpture that explores changes in the body, material, and modes of creation and production under the theme of “transformation.” Here, “transformation” refers not to a finished result, but to the process through which forms are made and continually shift into other states.
2026.04.07
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[Critique] Abject Girl Hole, Feminist Unni Laughter
Pink is the color and clothing worn by the girl, created in the male bourgeois culture. Pink connotes the girl, cute, bubbly, soft and naive, and at the same time, foolish, vulnerable, harmless, immature and childish. Pink symbolizes the girl’s ignorant happiness, and the pink girl is an empty site which talks ‘
2018
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Exhibitions
《Foreverism: Endless Horizons》, 2024.04.12 – 2024.06.23, Ilmin Museum of Art
Nostalgia has become the paramount industry of our era. Across the realms of society, culture, and politics, much of what rises in popularity is tethered to sentiments of nostalgia. Social media exchanges past glories for today’s traffic, idol groups vie to inherit the pop culture legacies of the past century,
2024.04.11
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《Human, 7 questions》, 2021.10.08 – 2022.01.02, Leeum Museum of Art
Humans have perpetually endeavored to define who they are. This is evidenced by the numerous modifiers that exist for the word “homo,” which has the meaning of “human.” Humans, who have been regarded as wise and rational beings for centuries, have long believed that they are able to alter the course of the world independently from God.
2021.10.08
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《Origin, Originality》, 2002.02.06 - 2002.03.03, P21
P21 is pleased to announce the inauguration of its establishment with 《Origin, Originality》, a solo exhibition by Choi Jeong Hwa (b.1961), a celebrated international artist based in Korea. P21, a gallery dedicated to contemporary art created in present day by mid-career and emerging artists, is located in the heart of Seoul, Itaewon disctrict.
2017.09.20
