迷逐幻影 | 崔珉荣最新个展将在蜂巢北京举办

蜂巢当代艺术中心荣幸的宣布，将于11月4日在蜂巢北京空间B、C两个展厅，推出韩国艺术家崔珉荣的最新个展“迷逐幻影/ Dark Brightness”。展出艺术家全新创作的19件绘画作品。此次展览由蜂巢当代艺术中心策展人赵小丹策划，将持续至12月16日。

崔珉荣1989年出生于韩国首尔，分别于2013年和2017年获得首尔国立大学和斯莱德美术学院的绘画硕士，现工作和生活于英国伦敦。崔珉荣的创作融合了民间传说、神话、宗教故事等元素，以梦境般的扑朔迷离跃然画面。通过绘画，艺术家表达了一个阴性的基于女性叙事的独特时刻，尤其是当她将个人感知以幕帘式的光线和情境更迭进行转圜调度，更是凸显了有别于此时此地的失重与疏离。在作品中，崔珉荣往往有意使用具有强烈象征属性的意象，诸如夜兔、猞猁、鳗鱼等，在既有文化情境中承载了人类对于神秘与未知世界的探索与遐思之物，作为进入她绘画世界无尽篇章的索引。

Hive Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the opening of South Korean artist Minyoung Choi’s latest solo exhibition, “Dark Brightness”, featuring 19 of the most recent paintings of the artist. The exhibition will be open on 4 November at Hive Beijing’s exhibition halls B and C. This show is curated by Zhao Xiaodan, and will be on view until 16 December.

Born in 1989 in Seoul, South Korea, Minyoung Choi received her MFA in Painting from Seoul National University and Slade School of Fine Art, respectively, in 2013 and 2017. She now lives and works in London. Her practice embraces elements of folklore, mythology, and religious narratives, all of which manifest themselves in a dreamlike and mesmerising manner in her work. Through her paintings, the artist addresses a moment in time based on a distinct from grand narratives, significantly when her personal perceptions are transformed and arranged by a drapery-like change of light and situations, the weightlessness and detachment from the here and now are emphasised. In her works, Choi often intentionally adopts imagery with powerful symbolic qualities, such as the hare, lynx, eel, etc., which in established cultural contexts embodies the human exploration and reverie for the mysterious and unknown world, serving as an interface into the endless chapters of her painting world.

Yuval Harari summarised, “The truly unique trait of Sapiens is our ability to create and believe fiction.” Choi, who has been immersed in the world of literature over the years, is well aware of such summarisation. In her works, she conceals the trace of narrative by accentuating rituals/ceremonial symbols, especially when introducing the experience of time and space transition and seasonal changes into her works, thereby embedding the experience that enhances the fluctuation of the mind into the canvas. Past memories and present sentiments are intertwined in the seemingly motionless images.

Minyoung Choi is narrating a story about humans in a circulating manner, and what it really imparts is not the darkness but the divine shimmering light emanating from the darkness. If surrealism represents the fragmentation of consciousness and visual conflict, Minyoung Choi removes the boundaries of manifold realities by mixing the imagery of human’s collective experience with dreams. Almost in a symbiotic hypothesis, the artist settles the anxiety, insecurity, fear, and chaotic feelings in a unique approach and establishes complex and distant visceral landscapes.

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