Discarded Melon Seeds and Jiri Mountain Stones Become Art
Creatrip Team
a month ago
Art Space Hue presents the group show “Between Everyday Life and Nature” through July 21, featuring mid-career Korean artists Jeon Won-gil and Kim Sun-im. The exhibition is the third installment of the ‘At the Boundary of Reality’ project, supported by the Korea Arts & Culture Education Service (2026). Kim Sun-im’s series “The Unknown Edible Beauty” uses discarded food remnants—melon seeds, sunflower seeds, and tea byproducts—to revive the sense of life in city consumption; her earlier work “Reading Grapes” began with grape skins affixed in a drawing book and has since expanded internationally. Jeon Won-gil’s paintings “Space Emergence” use pigments extracted from Jiri Mountain (Jirisan) granite to translate enlarged stone textures into stacked fields of color, while his installation “Stone in the Heart–2026” places naturally formed river stones alongside a perfectly crafted, human-made stone to probe the collision between nature’s order and human will. The project continues through October with four parts in total.
