![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/10\/15091659\/%EC%86%8C%EB%A6%84-%EC%AB%99-2025-Acrylic-Coloring-on-cotton-lumps-300x222cm.jpg\")
<\/p>\nJeong-A Bang<\/p>\n
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\uc18c\ub984 \ucad9, 2025, Acrylic Coloring on cotton lumps, 300x222cm<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n GALLERY MAC WEB<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0YOUTUBE<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0ARTSY<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-56655","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\/56655","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=56655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cWater is fine, and fire is fine. Does this mean both this and that are acceptable?\u201d
\nThe opening line of Jeong-A Bang\u2019s artist note for her solo exhibition \u300aWater and Fire Alike\u300b reveals the artist\u2019s gaze at life, found at the point where opposing properties collide and intermingle. It is not a gesture of simple inclusivity, but a critical question directed at the reality we face today.<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/10\/15091658\/%EB%82%98-%EC%A7%80%EA%B8%88-%EB%84%98%EC%96%B4%EA%B0%84%EB%8B%A4-2025-Acrylic-Coloring-on-Hanbok-fabric-130.3x162.2cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\n\ub098 \uc9c0\uae08 \ub118\uc5b4\uac04\ub2e4, 2025, Acrylic Coloring on Hanbok fabric, 130.3×162.2cm<\/em><\/div>\nIssues such as power relations between nations, unjust social structures, women\u2019s rights and human dignity, the climate crisis and environmental degradation, and nuclear power are deeply entangled with individual lives while simultaneously confronting us as irresolvable contradictions. In situations where no single choice is possible, how should we live, and what role can art play? \u300aWater and Fire Alike\u300b begins with this question.<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/10\/15091656\/%EC%9D%BC%EB%A0%81%EC%9D%B4%EB%8D%98-%EB%84%88%ED%9D%AC-2025-Acrylic-on-canvas-90.9x60.6cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\n\uc77c\ub801\uc774\ub358 \ub108\ud76c, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 90.9×60.6cm<\/em><\/div>\nOn Bang\u2019s canvas, images that appear unrelated are strangely intertwined. A woman embracing a leopard-patterned bag while a leopard passes by outside the bus window; a blank face as doctor fish nibble at her toes; baskets filled with peaches and scallions\u2014such incongruous objects and beings coexist within the same frame, meeting each other in estrangement. The artist focuses on the human attitude of holding together situations and things as opposite as \u201cwater and fire,\u201d enduring them to the end. Familiar landscapes fractured by subtle fissures, and scenes that embrace the heterogeneous, expose the tangled emotions and social tensions of daily life. They become metaphors for the contradictions layered throughout our existence\u2014life and death, power and vulnerability, nature and humanity.<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/10\/15091655\/%EC%86%90%ED%86%B1%EB%8B%AC%EB%8B%98-2025-Acrylic-Coloring-on-cotton-lumps-340x240cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\n\uc190\ud1b1\ub2ec\ub2d8, 2025, Acrylic Coloring on cotton lumps, 340x240cm<\/em><\/div>\n\nAlongside paintings on canvas, this exhibition also presents Bang\u2019s experimental works. Large-scale pieces made from dismantled cotton quilt linings, and works painted on traditional hanbokfabric, transform personal memory and material layers into new surfaces. These works extend Bang\u2019s longstanding realist perspective and social critique, while proposing another possibility for painting beyond the conventional rectangular frame.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nUltimately, \u300aWater and Fire Alike\u300b illuminates our condition in a world that forces choices upon us, where we nevertheless feel compelled to \u201cdo something.\u201d To embrace both water and fire, conflict and contradiction alike, is to reveal the uneasy reality of coexistence. Here, art becomes a question that cuts through a fragmented and chaotic world. Jeong-A Bang\u2019s work invites viewers to weave together these scattered fragments and to reflect anew on their own lives and society.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nJeongwon KIM (Gallerist \/ Gallery MAC), 2025<\/p>\n
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