The 2018 Local Artist Exhibition is conceived as a relay project aimed at encouraging the creative motivation of regional artists while providing a platform for exhibition opportunities. Three female artists from the region were selected, beginning with Huh Jeong-Won, followed by Choi Je-Heon in September, and concluding with Choi Yun-Hee.
 
The participating artists in this exhibition share a sustained interest in site-specificity, embracing physical space as an integral element of their work. Through the artists’ perspectives, the exhibition seeks to rediscover the utility of space and to engage local audiences by presenting works articulated through experimental and distinctive sculptural languages, grounded in each artist’s unique sensibility.

#01 Huh Jeong-Won

Mobility, as a fundamental condition of contemporary life, functions as a primary source of artistic creation. Artists, much like nomads, resist settling in a fixed place; instead, they seek autonomous spaces, tracing lines of flight and engaging in processes of self-deterritorialization. Within the framework of nomadism, such movement encompasses not only physical displacement but also psychological and conceptual transitions.
 
In this context, the artist’s repeated experiences of spatial relocation across regions have generated hybridized spaces and fluid identities. Her works, therefore, are grounded in these accumulated memories and experiences, materialized through the use of diverse media. This exhibition considers these foundational works as formal elements, constructing the exhibition as a unified sculptural composition.
 
Within the exhibition space, the works are categorized into point, line, and plane, undergoing processes of deconstruction and recomposition in order to examine the energies that emerge between them.
 
The exhibition design organizes the three walls of the gallery according to these formal elements—point, line, and plane—transforming the entire space into a singular, pure sculptural form.
 
Point: The right side of the gallery presents the element of point. Drawings on boards are connected like points, extending into lines and planes, and are installed diagonally on the floor. On the ceiling, lighting and electrical lines function as drawn elements, harmonizing into a unified spatial composition.
 
Line: The frontal wall embodies the element of line. Conceived as a single large canvas, works expressed through linear elements are configured as units and installed across the surface.
 
Plane: The left side of the gallery represents the element of plane. Works produced in a variety of colors are arranged to form chromatic planes across the wall.

References

• 《2018 로컬아티스트 Ⅰ_#01 허정원작가 (2018 Local Artist Ⅰ_#01 Artist Huh Jeong-Won)》