Vestibule 12 July - 09 Aug. 2001 _ Posco Art Museum_ Seoul

The Cycle of Life Dwelling in Transparent Space 

Sooyeon Hong’s paintings are transparent. Her works, elegant and pristine, hold layers of sophisticated color in every thread, silently revealing the very origin of those hues to the viewer. The way her paintings "change" depending on the light, color, and installation site is deeply rooted in this transparency. However, this clarity is not something easily or thinly achieved by merely restraining color. Rather, the beauty of the colors emanating from her brush is exquisitely fine, bordering on the magnificent.

Painting and Membrane Series

Sooyeon Hong portrays the internal world of phenomena with abstract images drifting in misty space. The obfuscated world, for her, is the world of fantasy in which everything is ambiguous. It is the place where she once encountered a threatening experience, and the world of dreams in which numerous allusions are melted; a gigantic power controlling the way of expositions of existence behind a phenomenon. Hong describes the abstruseness of the interior world that cannot be perceived by human intelligence.