Alpha Contemporary is proud to present Japanese and Korean Contemporary“Next”vol2. - Others' Landscapes : Eun-hyea Choi, Yukari Suematsu and Seo-hyeon Moon.

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This show is the 3rd exhibition of Alpha Contemporary's opening commemorative series Korean Contemporary“Now”and“Next”.

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Others’ Landscapes is a series presented by Alpha Contemporary that explores the diverse perspectives and coordinates through which contemporary artists perceive and interpret the world.

French writer Marcel Proust once remarked that we should be grateful to artists because they allow us to see not one world, but as many worlds as there are artists. Art can be understood as the result of artists continuously confronting the world — shaping their own coordinates through processes of understanding, conflict, memory, and perception, and ultimately formalizing these experiences into visual language. Others’ Landscapes begins precisely from this point.

Artists living within different cultural and social environments reconstruct everyday landscapes, images, sensations, and modes of cognition through their own perspectives, revealing worlds we may not yet have recognized. The exhibition understands “landscape” not simply as scenery or background, but as the very way each artist positions and interprets the world.

By following the perspectives of others, we encounter the possibility that the world we believe to be familiar may in fact be perceived in radically different ways. The Others’ Landscapes series examines how individual perspectives are transformed into visual language within contemporary art, and how those perspectives, in turn, generate fractures and expansions in the viewer’s own perception.

The moment we encounter another’s landscape, our own landscape also begins to be reconfigured.

In this first volume, works by Eun-hye Choi, Yukari Suematsu, and Seo-hyeon examine how different cultural backgrounds and personal experiences take shape as distinct and singular “landscapes.”
 

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Eun-hyea Choi (Korean b. 1983) 's works consist of stitched up fragments of time and visualized figurative experiences that are somewhere between physical experiences and trails of memories. As endless movements are born from time and space as axes, they are translated as layers of colors and abstract forms. She explore a world without limits through the abstraction of the physical world.

Her works are represented in the collections of Seoul Museum of Art, Ilshin Foundation,  Osan Museum of Art, Bank of Korea in Korea,
and Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery in the U.K.

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Yukari Suematsu (Japanese b. 1987) creates works based on the theme of ambivalence in our societies.

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Her works are created by using personal experiences as a starting point and transforming them into something that resonates with people from various walks of life. Because of it,her works are presented in abstract screen expressions and with a fuzzy message.

She creates a unique forum by making full use of the blurring and layering of vivid acrylic paint.

She graduated from Tama Art University in 2010 and has won numerous awards, including the Jury Award (Director, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Art), Shell Art Award 2017 (2017), and The 33rd HOLBEIN Scholarship, Holbein Art Materials Inc. (2019). In 2019, a special exhibition series “Project N 76 Yukari Suematsu” was held at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery to introduce emerging artists. She has participated in residency programs in Nagano, Nakajo, Niigata, and Finland.

Seo-hyeon Moon (Korean b.1982) creates contemporary patchworks in her unique style while making full use of traditional techniques of Jogakbo, Korean traditional patchwork. She uses recycling scraps of silk from hanbok and other items for her works.

She presents her works that are closer to painting, based on the abstract patterns, compositional beauty, and sophisticated color arrangement seen in the traditional Jogakbo.

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Graduated from Kyungwon University, Department of Textile Art, in 2005. Held a solo exhibition at Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center in 2023 (selected by the New Artist Contest Program).