Exhibition Information

			Kook Dong-wan will hold a pop-up exhibition <I promise I stay> at Phoebe Gallery from January 16 to February 6. The author has been working on the touchpoints of individuals and society found in the process of approaching unconsciousness through drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and book work. The exhibition will feature eight drawings by Kook Dong-wan and eight acrylic paintings that have expanded their drawings 900 times. The author has conducted detailed drawings of words and sentences imprinted after the 2020 Covid-19 pendemics and will lead visitors to his own landscape made of letters while working to expand them.

Kook Dong-wan deals with personal and universal topics along with expanded media exploration such as drawing, painting, books, and sculptures. The author pays attention to the process and attitude of approaching unconsciousness such as dreams, and catches, faces, and looks at the senses that occur impulsively between unconsciousness and consciousness through records. We then talk about the visual formulation that these records reveal as they pass through the form of accumulation.

The author's dream archive work, which has lasted more than 13 years, has made his dream a dream of a typewriter and has been expressed in various media with "Undecidability," the fateful nature of dreams and languages. "Ground-Banjo Drawing" is a process of transferring trained eyes to social phenomena that penetrate one's own life while dealing with dreams. Drawing, which began by digging into the remaining traces of unconsciousness in the form of letters with a pencil, is a method of first realistic drawing of the object to be drawn, then placing it underneath the paper and shooting the light into the paper, then filling it with the author's autonomous touch. At this time, the artist captures everything on the canvas without a sketch, without erasing or correcting, and the halo is a way to intentionally spill her unconscious mind.

Kook Dong-wan records his dream, but does not write it down thinking about its meaning, but records it for the purpose of storing it quickly. The global catastrophe of 2020 has come so unrealistically that it is no different from a dream for a writer that the writer has begun to write down the time of such a pendemic. This work has been new words and sentences that have never been encountered in everyday life, such as "stay home," which has already become a natural recommendation.

The '900x Magnification' series is a 900x painting of this pencil drawing, which is made by painting the lines left blank in the drawing with paper tape and then removing the paint. It is an effort to penetrate the small world more clearly through the opposite gesture, scale, and coincidence of painting the same picture.

The new works were carried out with attention to social issues, such as Kook Dong-wan's work on "A ferry" (2014-2016), which depicts Ferry Sewol in the past. In 2014, the author witnessed the issue of the Ferry Sewol incident and met the theme of the work in the unconscious thread revealed at the fingertips, although it was a self-facing the inner self.

The exhibition's title, "I Promise I Stay," is also a phrase that the author has repeatedly pledged for the year 2020, and the words of pandemics have become such a natural object of drawing. For the writer, 2020 is deeply imprinted with the idea that it may be a turning point that changes certain parts of life forever, and the scenery created by collecting pandemic's language gives the viewer time to take a walk in 2020.