What Becomes Solid, Slowly
2026. 3. 19 – 4. 18 | GALLERIES] Gallery Joeun
Jeong Daun
Installation View (1)
Gallery Joeun presents Daun Jeong’s solo exhibition Things That Slowly Become Solid, on view from March 19 to April 18, 2025. This exhibition marks the first solo presentation of Gallery Joeun’s represented artist Daun Jeong at the gallery, and clearly reveals the trajectory of her artistic practice to date.
Embodying an attitude and sensibility that gradually solidify through the accumulation of time, the exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter another beginning at a seasonal turning point.
Embodying an attitude and sensibility that gradually solidify through the accumulation of time, the exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter another beginning at a seasonal turning point.
Fabric Drawing#219, 2026, Fabrics (including Korean traditional textiles), thread, wrapped around a frame, 117 x 91 x 5.5 cm
“Daun Jeong: Fabric Painting Completed Through the Accumulation of Time”
Daun Jeong is an artist who has expanded the concept of painting through her Fabric Drawing practice. Based on the flexible medium of fabric, she layers the complexities of time, relationships, and life onto the surface, formally exploring the point at which material and sensation intersect. Her work is not simply a material experiment, but originates from a contemplation of how time takes form.
Fabric Drawing#218, 2026, Fabrics (including Korean traditional textiles), thread, wrapped around a frame, 181.8 x 227.3 x 4 cm
Thread becomes line, and line, through repetition, transforms into plane. However, this transformation is less a process toward a formal outcome than an inquiry into the act of “accumulating” itself. Repetition does not produce sameness. Within structures that appear systematic, subtle deviations and tensions exist, and the artist does not erase these discrepancies. While uniformity stabilizes the surface, tension keeps it alive.
Textiles imbued with traces of time are layered, wrapped, and pressed, forming thickness. This thickness is closer to the pressure left by duration than to physical depth. If her previous installation works were experiments in expanding space, her current canvas works can be understood as attempts to condense time. Within a small surface, countless repeated choices ultimately form a rhythm, and the work quietly breathes within that rhythm.
Fabric Drawing#215, 2026, Fabrics (including Korean traditional textiles), thread, wrapped around a frame, 91 x 91 x 2.7 cm
In particular, the translucency and folds inherent in traditional Korean fabrics do not permit a perfectly controlled surface. Light passes through layers, preventing color from being fixed and instead allowing subtle variations over time. What emerges is not a refined surface, but one that has passed through time. Within these subtle changes, the artist discovers the vitality of the image.
The artist notes that Things That Slowly Become Solid is not a place that declares completion. Rather, it is a record of an attitude that has passed through repetition, and the result of accumulated choices imbued with time. The “becoming solid” she refers to is not a hardened state, but a strength formed through enduring instability. This strength is not created at once; it is slowly built, gradually condensed, and quietly settles upon the surface.
Fabric Drawing#214, 2026, Fabrics (including Korean traditional textiles), thread, wrapped around a frame, 91 x 91 x 2.7 cm
Daun Jeong received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Painting from Dongduk Women’s University. She has actively exhibited in Belgium, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and China, and has expanded her practice through collaborations with global brands such as UNIQLO, Hunter, Tom Ford Beauty, Maison Margiela, Starbucks, and Louis Vuitton. Moving across the boundaries of painting and fashion, art and commerce, her work has established a distinct position within the flow of contemporary Korean art and is gaining attention from a new generation of collectors.
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GALLERIES] Gallery Joeun
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- 2026. 3. 19 – 4. 18
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