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			The shock of the moment when I found out, on one summer day in 2019 during my physics class, that ovals were complete figures by themselves, makes me tremble even now. For me, or maybe for some, it was just a circle. The oval which was proven to be perfect in the unfamiliar field of space physics, already proved by Johannes Kepler in the 16th century, seemed to me as unfamiliar and unsettling. On the other hand, it was rather pleasant to find this moment revealing at least one of the things that I had believed in or took advantage of to be meaningless. Melting Point captured the moment of coexistence; dreariness, uncertainty, incompleteness felt during the process of my work as if stumbling along an unknown foggy road, and crispness derived from expectation, vague conviction, unpredictability. As the circle was never perfect in the first place, my work which began from the melting point, the point before which there is no progress for a certain section of temperature and suddenly melts at 0, is a new record in my daily life or amid my relations with the others.
—From the artist's note


Assuming that a creator is a small space, there are numerous chaos exchanged during the creative process. Such chaos could turn the outer temperature higher or lower. Kyungjoo Choi portrays the new order she has sensed at the melting point through her works.
  Etching, a delicate and precise medium working with pressure is predictable yet there leaves room for uncertainty due to the pressing step, hence the result resembles the artist in its form. It conveys in itself a personal story. Thread sewn in a disorderly manner, texture rendered by silicon oozing onto the surface of the thread, thickness of the ink shown on the paper, vague forms made by burns, trace of lead that had melt down and hardened, vibration sent by the drum sound; all these sensory elements change into new form at respective melting points.
  Compared to the boiling point, the melting point is less influenced by the outer conditions so it is where there arrives lots of change within the mind of the artist. Entropy literally means 'In to transformation.' Change from an order to a new order tries to focus on energy. One can observe the change in engraving that goes beyond what an engraving was in the beginning. From the line with strong mobility, it changes to refined surface. A person's silhouette, the form of which the sunset has lightened the stairs, the trace left on the skin after a scar has been sewn up, the unsettled shape of the world made my all the things moving about and changing. The work encompassing all these elements, is the result of overlapping new records discovered within the artist herself or amid the relations she has with her surroundings.


Kyungjoo Choi graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and majored in engraving at the College of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Seoul National University. Choi launched in 2014 her printing label Artist Proof, and is currently operating the AP SHOP where the works are on display and her products are for sale. Through various collaborations with an extensive array of brands and artists, AP goes beyond the boundaries of commerce and art, genres, and strives to expand its realm. Currently, there are diverse collaborations with CAMPER pop-up shop(Shinsege Gangnam), Mmlg F/W, socks appeal F/W, AP × Post Standards Kim Minsoo designer stool, Team Factory curated 'Today's Weather'(Yoon Rahee+Choi Kyungjoo) participating as a team in Gwangmyeong U-Planet public art Today’s Weather, etc.