EXHIBITION│Between : 사이
Preface
In Between, the space of encounter becomes the work itself. This exhibition brings together four Korean artists whose practices unfold along the thresholds—between sound and silence, abstraction and form, presence and memory. Their works share a sensitivity to transition, to the quiet tension where the visible and invisible intersect. What unfolds here is not a conclusion but a resonance: an echo of stillness that lingers between worlds.
Im Jong Yeop’s painting begins with breath. Guided by the rhythm of pansori—the ebb and flow of inhalation and exhalation—his surfaces capture the unseen pulse of life. His brushwork embodies both restraint and release, transforming silence into substance. Each layer of paint is an act of meditation, a way of listening deeply to the intervals between gestures, where energy gathers before it becomes form.
Pyon Nae Ri invites us into the serenity of her dreamlike gardens. Her work traces moments of stillness found in familiar surroundings—ordinary places reimagined through the slow gaze of wonder. In her landscapes, the everyday becomes extraordinary, and the boundary between the inner and outer world dissolves into light. Her paintings offer quiet refuge: a reminder that beauty often resides in the unassuming rhythms of daily life.
Chang Tae Young’s ink-based works explore the language of line and void as a living continuum—its duality of fluidity and structure, its negotiation between absence and presence. His compositions meditate on separation and reunion, dissonance and harmony. Within the layered gestures of black and white, he traces the invisible threads that bind time, thought, and matter into a single plane of awareness.
Yang Jeong Mu’s long inquiry into the interaction between emotion and scenery reflects his pursuit of harmony between inner sensibility and the external world. His works dwell in the contemplative moment where emotion becomes image, and image returns to feeling. Through a balance of discipline and intuition, he opens a dialogue between self and landscape—between perception and reflection, empathy and insight.
Together, these four Korean artists inhabit the liminal. Between is an exploration of coexistence—of movement held in stillness, of intimacy within distance, of silence as a form of connection. Their works reveal that meaning often arises not in what is defined, but in what is felt between one breath and the next. In this shared space, the viewer is invited to pause—to dwell in the interval before understanding, in the subtle suspension between knowing and feeling. Here, art becomes a quiet conversation, a gesture of listening to the living rhythm between one presence and another.
Curator’s Note
Between unfolds as a study of thresholds—where gesture becomes thought, where sound becomes silence, and where perception gives way to awareness. Each artist, in distinct yet resonant ways, traces the delicate line between the tangible and the ineffable, offering works that dwell in transition rather than arrival. Though their media and methods vary—from the meditative breath of paint to the quiet vibration of ink—their practices share an attunement to rhythm, pause, and reflection. They approach painting not as representation but as revelation, a means to perceive what exists in the interstices of experience.
The four Korean artists presented here—Im Jong Yeop, Pyon Nae Ri, Chang Tae Young, and Yang Jeong Mu—speak a language of subtlety and restraint. Their works echo the sensibility of Korean aesthetics, where beauty often lies in what is withheld, and meaning arises from the space between forms. The notion of “between” thus becomes both theme and method: an aesthetic of balance, tension, and coexistence.
As a whole, Between invites viewers to linger in moments of quiet awareness—to listen to the intervals of silence, to sense the invisible movements of time and breath. It is an exhibition that does not demand attention, but rewards it; one that opens not through declaration, but through presence.