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Taehoo JUNG, Heeeeom, 2026, Oil on canvas, 91\u00d7116.8cm<\/em><\/p>\n WEB<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0ARTSY<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-58731","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\/58731","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=58731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gallery FM is pleased to present \u300aBENDING NOTER TIGER, HU\u300b, a solo exhibition by Jung Taehoo, on view from May 28 to June 16, 2026.<\/div>\nJung Taehoo is interested in how uniquely human emotions are heightened, transformed, and sometimes slip away. Her approach is akin to the jazz technique of bending, in which a musician bends a note upward or downward, capturing the subtle space of dissonance between institutionalized musical notation and raw, unprocessed human feeling.\u00a0<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/06\/01134842\/3.-%EC%A0%95%ED%83%9C%ED%9B%84-At-Night-2019-%EC%BA%94%EB%B2%84%EC%8A%A4%EC%97%90-%EC%9C%A0%EC%B1%84-33.4x24.2cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\nTaehoo JUNG, At Night, 2019, Oil on canvas, 33.4\u00d724.2cm<\/em><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nWhile flocks of birds occasionally appear throughout the exhibition, many of the works feature solitary figures\u2014a tiger, a boy, or other lone presences. Through them, the artist seeks to move closer to the emotional contours that humanity has accumulated since ancient times.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/06\/01134801\/2.-%EC%A0%95%ED%83%9C%ED%9B%84-%ED%97%88%EA%B3%B5%EC%9D%98-%ED%8B%88-2026-Oil-on-canvas-31.8x40.9cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\nTaehoo JUNG, Gap in the Air, 2026, Oil on canvas, 31.8\u00d740.9cm<\/em><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThe title, \u2018BENDING NOTER TIGER, HU\u2019, resists completion as a single, coherent sentence. Like a sound that belongs neither here nor there, suspended between notes, the title itself has been intentionally bent and distorted. Just as a jazz musician stretches a note toward a blue note, creating tension and expressive nuance, Jung employs vivid blues, reds, oranges, and yellows with remarkable freedom and intensity.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/06\/01134857\/5.-%EC%A0%95%ED%83%9C%ED%9B%84-%EC%82%B4%EB%B0%94%EB%9E%8C-2026-Oil-on-canvas-31.8x40.9cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\nTaehoo JUNG, Salbaram (A Passing Breeze), 2026, Oil on canvas, 31.8\u00d740.9cm<\/em><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThrough works such as Salbaram (A Passing Breeze), which captures the sensation of wind brushing against the skin; Gap in the Air; paintings of boys racing forward with breath rising to their throats; scenes filled with the exhilaration of flocks of birds taking flight; and Heeeeom, depicting a boy submerged in blue water, the artist poses questions about genuine freedom.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/06\/01134704\/1.-%EC%A0%95%ED%83%9C%ED%9B%84-%EC%95%84%EC%9A%B0%EB%9D%BC-2026-Oil-on-canvas-72.7x60.6cm.jpg\")
<\/div>\nTaehoo JUNG, Aura, 2026, Oil on canvas, 72.7\u00d760.6cm<\/em><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nIn Aura, a painting of a blue tiger, the animal appears as though stepping onto a fashion runway. Traditionally, the tiger has existed on the precarious boundary between sacredness and terror. Frequently appearing in East Asian mythology, it has also served as a vessel for collective emotions, including what has been described as a \u201ccolonial melancholy.\u201d Yet the tiger in Aura emerges differently\u2014mysterious, dignified, and charismatic, much like a K-pop star. It is a presence defined not by fear or symbolism, but by its own commanding aura.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThe age of artificial intelligence may one day come to be remembered as a revolution in its own right, alongside the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Within this transformative era, Jung Taehoo asks what remains uniquely human: the senses and emotions that machines cannot replace, and the freedom that continues to sustain us even as life constantly slips and shifts beneath our feet.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThrough this exhibition, the artist invites viewers to reflect on the enduring value of human feeling, perception, and freedom in an increasingly technological world.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\nGallery FM<\/div>\n2F, 57, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea (03060)<\/div>\n+82 2 737 4984<\/div>\n\n