BREEZE 《Temperature of the senses》
2026. 7. 1 – 7. 21 | [GALLERIES] gallery NoW
Park Eun-young, Oh Ji-eun, Jeon Hee-kyoung, Jeong Yun-young
Park Eun-young, 가득 채우다[fill], 35.0×28.0cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Each year, Gallery NoW presents BREEZE as a platform for introducing young artists who will help shape the future of the contemporary art scene, while tracing new currents in contemporary art. The 2026 edition, held in July, brings together four artists: Park Eun-young, Oh Ji-eun, Jeon Hee-kyoung, and Jeong Yun-young.
Park Eun-young, 감각하다[sense], 35.0×28.0cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Sensation is invisible, yet it remains with unmistakable clarity. Certain memories return as particular colors, while certain emotions are revived through scent or sound. Even when a moment has already passed, the body remembers it. The color of light once encountered by the sea, the humid air of a summer evening, the vibration of an anxiety that resists explanation, the quiet sign of longing that arrives without warning. Sensation outlasts the event itself, settling deep within life.
Park Eun-young, 이어지다[carry on], 35.0×28.0cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
This exhibition follows those traces through the practices of four artists, each of whom senses the world in a different way. Their concern is not the depiction of a specific object. Rather, their work attends to the place where memory has passed, the traces left by emotion, and the subtle textures that life has inscribed upon the body.
Oh Ji-eun, 살자, 72.7×60.6cm, oil on canvas, 2026
Park Eun-young collects and records colors discovered in everyday life. Colors found in shells, glass fragments, flower petals, and leaves meet again on the canvas, forming a landscape of their own. In her work, color is not merely a material, but a repository of memories left by experience and a way of accumulating time.
Oh Ji-eun, 푸른 새벽, 60.6×72.7cm, oil on canvas, 2026
Oh Ji-eun speaks of vanished time and the emotions of absence. As time passes, concrete scenes become blurred; strangely, however, the atmosphere and colors of those moments remain more vividly. Rather than recreating memories that cannot be held, the artist transfers onto the canvas the emotional currents that linger around them.
Jeon Hee-kyoung, 개구리 오케스트라 Night Orchestra of Frogs, 116.8x91cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2026
Jeon Hee-kyoung looks directly at the anxiety and vitality of everyday life at once. Sensations captured between dream and reality, control and impulse, form a rhythm within the picture plane. In particular, the sounds and energies encountered in nature become important sources in her work, awakening the sensation of being alive itself.
Jeong Yun-young, 나의 보라 꽃에게 (To My Purple Bloom), 53×45.5cm, oil, water color, pigment powder on silk layered canvas, 2025
Jeong Yun-young looks into the incompleteness of existence and the precariousness of life. The fluid forms in her paintings do not appear as completed figures, but as states that continue to waver and change. Without turning away from life’s fractures, she quietly reveals the compassion, will, and beauty of life discovered within them.
Jeon Hee-kyoung, 구름아 언제 왔니 The Sky, Suddenly Full of Clouds, 145.5×112.1cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2025
The four artists begin from different directions, yet ultimately meet at a single point: sensation. Memory becomes color, absence becomes atmosphere, anxiety becomes rhythm, and questions of existence emerge as form. In this way, each artist’s experience remains on the canvas, carrying its own temperature.
Jeong Yun-young, 유동하는 갈래 (Flowing section), 43×29cm, oil, water color, pigment powder on silk layered canvas, 2024
Today, we live amid countless images and streams of information, yet the time we spend listening to our own senses is gradually diminishing. Through these works, the exhibition invites us to pause for a moment and look into the traces of sensation that remain within us. What we encounter before the works may not, perhaps, be only the artists’ stories. It may be our own forgotten memories, our own emotions, and our own temperature.
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- 2026. 7. 1 – 7. 21
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