Do Dream Small Museum prepared 《Feeling, Thinking》 as its second exhibition of 2018 for spectators to appreciate.

Ryu Hyun-suk, communicating through the arts.

Artist Ryu Hyun-suk, who wants spectators to freely appreciate her works, says that drawing is not a special duty but a part of her daily life. Her work which incorporates a date that approaches like a code and the traces of that day further includes both significant and petty incidents, weather and moods at that time. Reminiscing about her childhood and the day that the artist discovered a pencil eraser at her neighborhood shop and shouted, “This is it!”, the artist wrote a diary entry filled with details with an eraser, and she proceeded to write her worries about nature and life through drawings.

Furthermore, the artist mixes colors at random over transparent film to unfold the fun imagination of the question “Don’t you think there is a place like this somewhere in the universe?” Upon the artist’s meaningful comment, “Rather than showing what I know, I will answer only to the extent of what is asked,” we were able to look into the artist’s mind in wanting to relate instead of delivering a message through her works.

We invite you to Ryu Hyun-suk’s 《Feeling, Thinking》 which is filled with fun happenings.

The Gyeonggi Creation Center of the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation holds Unofficial Discoursers, the 2018 GCC Preview Exhibition, from April 26 (Thu) through June 24 (Sun) at the GCC Permanent Exhibition Space and Project Exhibition Space. The opening reception commences at 4 PM April 25 (Wed) at the GCC Art Café.

The Gyeonggi Creation Center has offered an international and local Residency Program of the largest scale in Korea, where artists from home and abroad have been supported in their creative work and study. This year, it has selected artists who have worked in various fields and expressed the world and life through their artwork with their original attitudes and perspectives on social, historical, and cultural issues, in order to provide the artists with more intensive residency programs according to the content. Unofficial Discoursers, the 2018 GCC Preview Exhibition, will be the venue for introducing 20 new resident artists in 2018 with their various works including paintings, videos, performances, photos, sound, installations, ceramic works, and sculptures.

Unofficial Discoursers, the title of the exhibition, refers to the subject which encompasses all of the actions that an artist takes in order to gain a fundamental individuality, a unique way of existence for an artwork, and all of the relationships resulting from those actions. Through these actions, an artist resists the interpretations based on social convention, looks for the dominant meanings of accidents, and creates uncommon places by ceaselessly creating gaps and rifts in order to not remain located in the existing system of knowledge or ideas. Along the way, the artists refuse to lose their inner distinction from others, readily befriending the solitude and loneliness so as to remain true to their individual particularity and infinitely varying possibilities. In the contemporary art field where dynamic changes are incessantly created, the artists who have maintained their own way to communicate and their own artistic practices pose meaningful questions through their works of art.

With the Preview Exhibition at the GCC as a starting point, the artists anticipate a strengthening of their individual identity as they take part in various exhibitions, mentoring, lectures, and workshops as part of the residency program, creating a network with each other and forming a creative and artistic synergy.

Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation is holding the special exhibition Us, Coexisting at the Lobby Gallery from April 16 to June 15, 2018. At Us, Coexisting, you can view the ways to coexist with others in everyday life through the works of Byun Kyung Soo, Yang Seung-won, Woosung Lee, and Jang Li La. The distinctive works of the four artists now on display at the Lobby Gallery compose an exhibition by forming the background for each other or relying on and coexisting with each other. The scene epitomizes the process of forming a community. We often try to accept and respect the ‘difference’ in relationships with others, but it is easier said than done. In our complex society where members are entangled with each other, we adjust our ways to coexist with others through face-to-face meetings and communication. You would find the chance to pay attention to your neighbors and communicate with them by adopting the sophisticated eyes of the artists, with which you could perceive the tension, the conflict, and the changes and signs during the process of communication between the ideal and the reality, the individual and the society, an individual and another individual, and the artwork and the audience.