Layers of Color and Form Create a New Resonance at 'Rhythm of Silence'
Creatrip Team
2 months ago
A group exhibition, "Rhythm of Silence," runs through next month at Liemann Muffin Seoul in Yongsan, featuring mid-career Korean women abstract painters Seong Nak-hee, Lee So-jung, and Han Jin. Though each artist uses different materials and methods, their work shares strong color and rhythmic sensibilities that create a resonant dialogue in the same gallery space. Seong (55) presents vivid, smooth-gradient canvases that evoke computer graphics and improvisational movement; her titles often come from fleeting impressions of books, conversations, music, or daily life. Lee (47), trained in traditional East Asian painting, reuses fragments of earlier works on wood panels, overpainting them with ink and gold acrylic to form layered, ordered surfaces—her piece "Nojimilsik" shows this collage-like process. Han (47) explores fading objects and subtle, nonverbal sensations—what she calls "silence"—by repeatedly scraping and layering marks to materialize memory and emotional time; her work "The Night Still Must Wait, and Day Is Not an Image" centers on a sky-blue opening that can suggest lying in a forest or looking down at a lake. Curator Maeng Ji-young emphasizes the way the artists’ visual rhythms and contrasting approaches generate a quiet but dense sensory tension, inviting viewers to experience a new collective resonance created by their intersecting practices.
