Exhibition Information

Snow Fight
2019 Charcoal on paper 120 x 200cm

Belka_Laika_Strelka and nameless 3 migrotary birds
2019 Charcoal on graph paper 75 x 105cm

One night in Bankok-One night in Kaboul
2019 Chinese ink on paper 90 x 180cm

Don't take me home_Somali sea_Indian ocean
2019 Chinese ink on paper 54 x 39cm

			<Without Even Knowing the Reason> 
Seung Oh Shin(Director of Perigee Gallery)

Daejin Choi has occupied himself with figuring out how to showcase what he has seen and felt from what is happening in the world in the form of art. He has been consistently involved in drawing. His drawings are not meant to portray a specific situation and are not based on his surreal imagination; instead, they seem to feature a variety of situations in which he is placed in his everyday life, as if making a clipping. Drawing has become the foundation of his work. He is also adept at diversely exploiting the media of his work to embody what he would like to say in the venue on the basis of drawing. As the stories he showcases through his exhibitions are in a wide spectrum, it is not easy to grasp the relationships they have with his works. This article presents an opinion deriving from my individual perspectives as opposed to a concrete explanation and description of his artistic activities. I reveal how the exhibition Place of dog makes a foray into gaining access to his attitude toward and thoughts on artistic work.

Choi tells....