{"id":50994,"date":"2025-05-28T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=50994"},"modified":"2025-05-28T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:07:23","slug":"overwhelming-walls-and-a-burning-car","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/50994","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming Walls and a Burning Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chae Jimin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50997\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/05\/28170135\/1.-%EC%8D%B8%EB%84%A4%EC%9D%BC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Exhibition Poster<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gallery Joeun is pleased to present Chae Ji-Min\u2019s solo exhibition, Overwhelming Walls and a Burning Car, running from May 29 to June 21, 2025. This exhibition spotlights the artist\u2019s distinctive visual language, shaped through a sustained exploration of the boundaries between reality and illusion, flatness and dimensionality, within the medium of painting.<br \/>\nChae Ji-Min\u2019s works present juxtaposed structures, figures, and objects without a coherent narrative, generating a visually tense spatiotemporal realm. His paintings create dissonance within familiar scenes, inviting viewers to experience the fissures between perception and sensation\u2014transcending mere representation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50995\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/05\/28170132\/2.-The-man-looking-at-something-under-the-blue-wall-2025-Oil-on-Canvas-72.7x116.8cm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The man looking at something under the blue wall, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 72.7&#215;116.8cm<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibition will unveil 20 new paintings, which mark a pivotal moment in the artist\u2019s ongoing inquiry. These fragmented yet arresting images capture moments of stillness, as if suspended at the edge of a scene, prompting contemplation of painting\u2019s essence and its limits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHis journey begins beneath an overwhelming wall\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chae Ji-Min states, \u201cMy paintings are a random combination of fragmented images discovered in moments of life.\u201d The elements within his paintings\u2014each from different contexts\u2014collide or coexist in ambiguous relationships without full resolution. His practice is less concerned with narrative than with evoking sensory experiences and emotional resonance.<br \/>\nChae\u2019s distinctive visual language continues to extend globally with quiet intensity. Following the presentation of his installation Overwhelming Crash at Herm\u00e8s Maison Shanghai in 2023, he is currently participating in a project with Herm\u00e8s Singapore. His works, marked by their experimental nature and structural tension, communicate through images rather than words, leaving a lasting impression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50996\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/05\/28170134\/3.-A-mint-colored-wall-and-a-burning-car-2025-Oil-on-Canvas-130.3x130.3cm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A mint-colored wall and a burning car, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 130.3&#215;130.3cm<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Art critic Joo Eun-Jung describes Chae\u2019s artistic world as follows:<br \/>\n\u201cHe devises and participates in a bold game\u2014attempting to meticulously construct a space that is isolated from neither reality nor image, yet never fully formed within either. It is a game with no definitive answer or solution. Within this open-ended structure, where conclusions are endlessly deferred, he finds creative freedom, using the constraints as motivation. His journey begins beneath an overwhelming wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gallery Joeun<br \/>\n3, Itaewon-ro 55 ga-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea<br \/>\n+82-2-790-5889<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galleryjoeun.comwww.galleryjoeun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galleryjoeun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/search\/galleries?term=gallery%20joeun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARTSY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-50994","insights","type-insights","status-publish","hentry","category-insight","category-stories"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/50994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}