Polyphony: 윤병운

From June 8 to June 28, Gallery Chosun will reunite with artist Yoon Byung Woon for the first time in seven years. Best known for his snowy landscapes rendered in a dreamlike style, his paintings turn reality into fantasy and carry a quiet surreal tone. The exhibition will present  new works based on the theme of silence. Yoon’s paintings are not simple views of nature, but scenes shaped by distorted memory and the passage of time. He paints memories that fade and blur as time builds up. The works reflect how we reshape reality through memory. They invite open imagination and place the viewer between past and present, reality and unreality. 

Yoon Byung Woon explores layers of time and awareness, and the exhibition suggests uncertain encounters at shifting boundaries. The works begin in white, a colour that absorbs even sound. Snowy scenes become a starting point between inner and outer worlds, between the conscious and the unconscious. When snow falls, all stories grow still. Cold yet gentle snow fills the empty space of the painting. The artist has long expressed the feeling of memory as soft afterimages. He also compares his way of handling images in painting to polyphonic music, where sounds stand apart yet come together.