Frieze Seoul 2025: Galleries
Gallery Chosun will take part in Frieze Seoul 2025, held from September 3 to 6, highlighting artists Sunghong Min, Minjung Woo, and Sooryeon Choe, marking its return after its participation in 2024. These artists will delicately and beautifully present the narrative that commonly appears in their work under the theme of ‘Myth and Narrative.’
At a time when everyone speaks of artificial intelligence, scientific technology, and growth, Gallery Chosun seeks to return to ‘Myth and Narrative.’. In an era where optimism for the future is fading, empathy is waning and uncertainty remains about whether things will improve, the power of storytelling is more vital than ever. The three artists Sunghong Min, Minjung Woo, and Sooryeon Choe summon narrative through diverse media and perspectives. Sunghong Min’s works reassemble discarded objects and deconstructed images, presenting traces and stories of the people who once used and cherished them. Through his hands, the emotions of those repeatedly forced to part with their familiar surroundings amid urban redevelopment and migration are reconnected. His pieces invite viewers to imagine the enduring narratives of objects and beings that are surely fated to be forgotten. Minjung Woo carves mythic images into clay panels. Her motifs figures in motion, forms of animals and plants, elements like fire and water remind us of the primordial order of birth myths before this universe was brought into existence, evoking continuity and a flowing time like running water. Her world shaped by the elemental forces of earth, fire and water, her world, complemented by the breath (air) of both artist and viewers - is strikingly intricate and dynamic. Sooryeon Choe paints traditional Northeast Asian female ghosts and celestial maidens. She then copies Chinese characters from incomprehensible Chinese myths on the canvases. Through her work, she demands that viewers engage with silenced and adrift women as well as the objectified ‘Orient’ in a fresh narrative in her expanded painting.
