《Still Waiting for Summer》

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Seasons approach us as if promised. Among them, summer is the most intense—dense with light, expanding heat, and a rhythm that burns. But this exhibition does not concern itself with that climax. Instead, it begins in the threshold before arrival: in the stretch of time where summer has not yet come. Still Waiting for Summer attends to sensations prior to arrival, to unshaped anticipation, and to the in-between. It asks how we might perceive the landscapes of a season that has not yet unfolded—how we might feel the weight of its uncertainty, its density, its haze.

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Waiting is not stillness. It is the movement of emotion that can only exist within irreversible time—a summation of imagination and sensation born in a state not yet realized. Eight artists, including Insun Choi (b. 1964), Euyoung Hong (b. 1975), and Hayoung Eum (b. 1980), encounter this slow, uncertain season-to-come each in their own language and medium. Their works do not offer answers. Instead, they respond to delay and ambiguity by registering tremors of feeling.
 

Insun Choi unfolds waiting as a sculptural duration, mediated through language and structure. Long invested in the logic of objects and the construction of gaze, he proposes spatial devices that detect the imminence of change. In his work, viewers are invited to learn how to sense what has not yet arrived.

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Euyoung Hong’s practice is a sculptural meditation on layered time. She composes the heat and tension of an unrealized season—what lies before summer—in the language of matter. Her spaces are emptied, objects accumulate, and the body recalibrates its senses. Her sculptures remain as traces of unresolved events.
 

Hayoung Eum is a painter who captures fleeting moments of everyday life through a singular lens. His works navigate the boundary between reality and imagination, breathing new sensibilities into familiar places and objects. His surfaces, rich with color and texture, absorb the traces of time—mapping narratives where past and present, personal memory and imagined spaces intersect. In this exhibition, he visualizes the emotional depth of "waiting for a summer that has not yet come," expressed through calm rhythms and layered visual density.
 

Ultimately, Still Waiting for Summer is not merely about a season, but about the structure of perception itself. It explores how personal experiences of time are translated into visual language, and how emotions shaped by delay and uncertainty can reveal a clearer sense of reality. Summer has not arrived—perhaps it never will. This exhibition reflects on what it means to gaze upon what has not yet come.

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