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Artist Taewon Ahn: Exploring Identity Between the Internet and Reality
Taewon Ahn (b. 1993), also known by the name ppuri, has been transforming rapidly circulating digital images—such as internet memes—into physical forms through painting and sculpture. Ahn regards the internet not merely as a virtual space, but as a new kind of material network shaped through the interactions between humans, environments, and technology. Within this framework, the artist sensually explores and expresses the complex relationships that emerge in digital space.
2025.05.19
Exhibitions
《Here and There》, 2025.03.20 – 2025.04.30, Galerie Lelong & Co. (Paris)
"I dream a lot" says Hyunsun Jeon. In her paintings, she tries to capture the diffuse feelings that persist when you wake up, when what remains of your dreams are impressions, colours and hybrid shapes – impossible syntheses of real memories. But Jeon's painting, however dreamlike, is above all driven by a concrete quest: what is an image, what is representation ?
2025.03.18
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[Review] Won Seoungwon Exhibition 《Character Episode I》 (ArtSide Gallery, 2013)
Since returning to Korea after completing her studies in Germany, Won Seoungwon has held four solo exhibitions between 2007 and the present. Although she majored in sculpture, she uses drawing and photography as her primary mediums. Her work employs real objects as materials, but she constructs situations and events that would be impossible in real life to unfold her own narratives.
2013.04.11
Activities
Atta Kim, Special Exhibition at the Venice Biennale
On June 5 (local time), at Palazzo Zenobio in Venice, as church bells signaled 1 p.m., Korean songs such as ‘Spring in My Hometown’, ’Jeongseon Arirang, and ‘Thoughts of My Brother filled the air’.
2009.06.08
