Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			The exhibition Trees and Words, 

held at YOONSUN GALLERY, is truly exceptional. 

Not only is it the first solo exhibition in East Asia of the artist Michel Pérez Pollo (b. 1981), 

but it can also be seen as the artist’s response

 to the East Asian cultural sphere, 

where the world has traditionally been 

represented through characters. 

Michel Pérez Pollo, a Cuban-born artist, is already highly acclaimed in the contemporary art world. 

While there are many artists who remain at the surface, examples as rare as Pérez Pollo—

who makes visible profound reflection through painting, approaching an inner logic of pictorial thought—are hard to find.



Pérez Pollo’s work embodies, 

through the language of painting, 

the interaction between our perception 

and the world. 

He first creates clay figures or small objects, 

then adopts them as motifs for his paintings.

 In other words, he begins with a physical reality, 

but this is soon transformed into a fictional 

existence within the painted image.



The experience of viewing Michel Pérez Pollo’s paintings is not simply one of fascination 

with beautiful forms, 

but rather an occasion for a philosophical 

event that questions how we understand 

and construct the world. 

His pictorial universe may be called 

a metaphysical painting—

an experiment in thought that draws us 

into an abyss where reality and fiction 

can no longer be distinguished, 

much like the figures in Borges’ stories, 

and that gently leads us to step outside 

the everyday into a space of reflection.