Hyunsun Jeon Hyunsun Jeon

Hyunsun Jeon

Born in 1989, lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.
Exhibition view: Dui Jip Ki, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2023). Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Hyunsun Jeon has invented a unique pictorial language that employs a Korean chromatic palette predominated by greens, blacks, and blues. Her expansive vocabulary of proportion—some simplified passages for example relate to pixelation in early video games—is suspended between symbolic geometry and suggestive landscape conveying an impending sense of poetic absence and artificial presence.

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