Dialogue 17 Sep. - 06 Oct. 2017 _ Nook Gallery_ Seoul

Sooyeon Hong stacks layer after layer of forms that appear to have been made accidentally, to reveal the stories deep down in her subconscious. Though the artist claims to work through a completely controlled process, the forms she makes feel like abstract organic shapes made spontaneously without plan, by letting her hands run free. The multiple layers of such shapes drift softly on the smooth picture-plane, as if they are carefully approaching one another to whisper something, to endlessly tell stories from deep inside. Abstract art is read and interpreted differently according to the viewer’s perspective. Spectators generally do not focus on the process or methodology of the work, but respond to the work with the emotions they feel. Sooyeon Hong’s paintings have the mysterious power to create hundreds of different interpretations according to each viewer’s memory. _ArtNews