Lobby Gallery presents Inner View in its third round of project exhibitions. Just as an interview seeks to communicate through the medium of language, this exhibition is significant in that it pursues a mutual understanding through the medium of artwork. Wee Young-il and Kim Yong-kwan, two artists invited to this art show, took part in an artist-in-residence program at the Gyeonggi Creation Center. Their works on display at this exhibit demonstrate their endeavors to explore and pose underlying questions concerning painting that go beyond the boundaries between painting and sculpture.

Kim Yong-kwan’s work ushers viewers into the exhibition space at the two entrances of the gallery. It draws a distinction between the inside and outside of the space and heralds the beginning and end of the exhibition. His work retains organically altering expandability due to the spatial characteristics of the lobby gallery that consists of double glazed doors, depending on a viewer’s notion and physical viewpoint. Newly produced for this exhibition, this work can be seen as an extension of Obsolete Landscape, a series consisting mainly of paintings. The inside space one steps into after passing through Kim’s work is featured with Wee Young-il’s works. Various attempts found in his works have continued to raise questions concerning how layers can exist in the medium of painting and to what extent arbitrary setting can be involved in the frame of art.

Their works intend to reflect and communicate their inner worlds, departing from the limits of communication couched in language. Their works which deconstruct and reconstruct pictorial surfaces in diverse ways are finally completed through interactions with viewers. As viewers are aggressively involved in their works, they should be read, written, and talked about naturally in various manners while making forays into dispelling the myth of an absolute subject. This exhibition is expected to serve as a milestone in their art careers. It will also an opportunity for us to look back on the journey of our lives through the process of their active practices.

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