KYUNG HWA SHON
ABOUT
"The myriad ambiguous signs and letters in the street and fragmented specular images on shop-window displays are, for me, crucial elements in creating peculiar relationships with the world of things, implying the emergence of the imagination.
Through these elements, the infinite boundary of the imagination unleashes the city as unaccustomed, disoriented, and reencountered.
My art practice focuses on the rediscovery of psychological heteromorphic identification, the presence of invisible substance, and fantastic visual experiences emanating from serendipitous moments of glitch in the city. The work implies the opening of the urban landscape to a distinct poetics of the city in which mythology, sign, symbol, voice, text, and trace occurs."
- Kyung Hwa Shon
Kyung Hwa Shon’s work explores the reciprocal relation between a city and the imagination, where the city is a field of excavation where everything is buried, hidden, and remaining undiscovered.
Kyung Hwa Shon Shon is recipient of numerous prizes, most recently the SOLO Award 2015 and the Alternative Space Loop Art Prize.
Shon has shown her work internationally at Royal Academy of Arts (UK), Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Posco Art Museum and SeoungNam Arts Centre (Korea), Korean Cultural Service New York (USA), Cozinha Gallery at the University of Porto (Portugal), and Korean Cultural Centre, (UK).
Recent exhibitions include 'The Surface of the City and The Depth of the Psyche'
17 June - 17 July 2016, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea;
Paper | Publication | Performance, Lychee One Gallery, London, UK, 2016; WW Solo Award: The City of Fragments, WW Contemporary Art, London Art Fair 2016, London, UK; ‘UK/RAINE’, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2015.
Kyung Hwa Shon (born 1983) lives and works in London and Seoul. She is currently studying for a PhD in Painting at the Royal College of Art.
Through these elements, the infinite boundary of the imagination unleashes the city as unaccustomed, disoriented, and reencountered.
My art practice focuses on the rediscovery of psychological heteromorphic identification, the presence of invisible substance, and fantastic visual experiences emanating from serendipitous moments of glitch in the city. The work implies the opening of the urban landscape to a distinct poetics of the city in which mythology, sign, symbol, voice, text, and trace occurs."
- Kyung Hwa Shon
Kyung Hwa Shon’s work explores the reciprocal relation between a city and the imagination, where the city is a field of excavation where everything is buried, hidden, and remaining undiscovered.
Kyung Hwa Shon Shon is recipient of numerous prizes, most recently the SOLO Award 2015 and the Alternative Space Loop Art Prize.
Shon has shown her work internationally at Royal Academy of Arts (UK), Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Posco Art Museum and SeoungNam Arts Centre (Korea), Korean Cultural Service New York (USA), Cozinha Gallery at the University of Porto (Portugal), and Korean Cultural Centre, (UK).
Recent exhibitions include 'The Surface of the City and The Depth of the Psyche'
17 June - 17 July 2016, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea;
Paper | Publication | Performance, Lychee One Gallery, London, UK, 2016; WW Solo Award: The City of Fragments, WW Contemporary Art, London Art Fair 2016, London, UK; ‘UK/RAINE’, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2015.
Kyung Hwa Shon (born 1983) lives and works in London and Seoul. She is currently studying for a PhD in Painting at the Royal College of Art.