Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			Gallery Everydaymooonday is proudly presents 12 works containing Brian Robertson’s exploration of “emotion: simple bodily responses to neurotransmitters” through his solo exhibition from December 24th to January 29th. The artist goes beyond the ‘thinking outside the box through the juxtaposition of realistic descriptions and objects with personal meaning that subvert expectation’ shown in previous works, and this time, through the series of <FEELS>, he would like to question about “Are we really the subject of our own emotions, thoughts, and actions?”  

His study on chemical reactions leads us to think expansively that the validity and cogency of emotions can often be delusion, that we are a massive collection of cells, and that overconfidence in subjective thinking and self-acceptance of knowledge are perhaps ignorance of one’s own ignorance, which leads to errors in judging others and society with individual standards, and furthermore creates prejudice/egoism/stubbornness’.  
The bust of portrait, which stands out in its hyper-realism, is a detailed depiction of the clothing of the artist’s friend, who is the model of work, and the point of <FEELS> series is that the neurotransmitter that immediately comes to mind to artist from the interaction with the model are expressed in the work instead of facial description. Since this includes the artist’s personal interpretation of the model, it can be a portrait but also a self-portrait of the artist, and the juxtaposition of the realistic depiction of the body and the cells that are invisible make us feel the eccentricity that comes from the dépaysement of surrealism.  

Through this exhibition, the EM Gallery hopes that it will be a time to indulge in the mystery of the process of thinking, noticing emotions and reactions, seeking to expand thinking about familiar things based on the unfamiliarity that comes from visual distortion. 

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications—and most of himself. 
– Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf)

Daye Shin 
Everyday Mooonday 


(Source=Everyday Mooonday)