Exhibition Information

			With a Loving Heart

UARTSPACE is holding Seonjeong Wang’s Private exhibition,”With a Loving Heart ” starting from Aug. 2nd ~ to Sept. 2nd, 2023.

Seonjeong Wang’s work includes a human being that sometimes shape is expressed as mass or something religious, or someone that’s deformed, dismantled, and fragmented, which is far away from what we call “a perfect human being”

The artist, who used to primarily research the ultimate fear, weakness, and self-pity a human being can have, Now talks about the positive change of consequences by accepting all of them.

The artist deeply contemplates our fear/dread and discovers its essence, its hidden purposes, and why it became an en-growing monster. Properly confronting our fears is hard, as it is the same as admitting that we are born a wimp. However, it is an inevitable task. Not denying or lying about it, but trying to properly take a look at our pains and wounds and sharing the process with others as a virtuous cycle. It ultimately leads to truly “Loving” yourself and life transcending from private matters to social pathology.

This exhibition contains the artist’s recent and undisclosed works containing footsteps of healing society after passing desperate times.

The artist’s early works 《Eat, Love, Prey》and 《The Nth Portrait》contains humans’ weaknesses and self-pity. It goes on to 《Holy》and 《the Traveling Purpose》, which are extensions from the artist’s previous exhibition “Eden-play” expresses the current nature & social conflict as comedy containing tragedy, using numerous religious figures. Recent human portrait works like 《Be-au-ty》, and《with a loving heart》are showing dramatic changes to inner fears which were drawn with dark and gloomy colors, by changing the strokes and colors with light and peepy tones, taking one step forward to the bright side.

The work contains various people expressed with various media. The sow-on cotton dolls which also means warm childhood memories of playing with the dolls, make the artist’s art world more abundant.

Through this exhibition, we hope you meet artist SeonJeong Wang’s art conscience of research and self-esteem and become a chance to heal and sympathize.

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[Artist’s note]

If someone is unbearably poor and feels desperate just by thinking about him, pity, I thought that’s love. The loving heart begins with compassion, turns into hate, and sometimes into overwhelming emotion, and eventually becomes an empty ash. My love of life is close to a sad feeling full of compassion.

To understand this life, I have stepped on and the people around me, look inside and outside myself.

Look at my face and look at other people’s faces again. Again, they are intertwined and living inside me as people with countless new or familiar faces. And I paint like I caress their faces. I draw my pitiful and lovely faces with a loving heart. Like this, I breathe and sit in the present. As a writer, as a human being.

23.01.21 Saturday at 9:04 am, at home

It was often the case with me. You won’t work when you’re happy. What is happiness? No worry about money? So, living a comfortable, accident-free, and peaceful life where you can only work? (Even though an artist isn’t trying to make money in the first place.)

I don’t know what kind of life happiness is, but I was worried inside because I didn’t worry about money more than before. What if I’m lazy and lazy and don’t feel like the ‘inspiration’?’ But why, “The Disgusting Life of Seonjeong Wang,” as expected!

I’m not a person whose windows are installed ‘inside’ rather than outside. The fact that the windows are installed inside means that the house does not have an outside window. The “window” that observes only oneself without seeing the light would rather be a mirror. As the practical problem disappears, I am more immersed in looking into myself. The rising faces are both desperately poor and angry. The people I find in me, the ones who pull out of the canvas like that, were me and all others.

23.03.02 Home 5:10 pm

I draw light by drawing a shadow.

Unfortunately, I am a shadow, so my work becomes a light.

I won’t die. I’ll live as a shadow.

I believe. I don’t doubt it. I’ll endure it.

(Source = uartspace)