'Painting What Is Not Painted': Jeong Su-jin Solo Exhibition at S2A
Creatrip Team
4 months ago
S2A, the cultural arts space run by the Global SeAH Group in Seoul’s Gangnam district, opens artist Jeong Su-jin’s solo exhibition “Budo-wido (不圖為圖)” featuring 18 new oil paintings. Rather than depicting visible forms, Jeong explores inner structures—emotion, unconscious, rhythm and balance—by using intersecting lines and layered color to suggest feelings that do not explode but linger like echoes. The artist’s restrained gestures and erasures evoke Buddhist notions of emptiness (공), presenting a practice of revealing what cannot be directly drawn: the invisible architecture of perception. Curator Kang Hee-kyung describes these works as a declaration of worlds that exist because they cannot be fully depicted; art professor Jeong Yeon-sim notes the paintings arise where the world of objects and the viewer’s perspective intersect. Jeong studied at Hongik University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown at major institutions including MMCA and Taipei Fine Arts Museum; last year she attracted international attention with a solo booth at Frieze Seoul. The exhibition runs through January 10, 2026.
