Image: Ilmin Museum of Art, London
Ilmin Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition featuring works by Choi Sooryeon and Choi Hae-ri, according to source material circulated by the museum. The material introduces two separate bodies of work, each built around translation, transformation and the movement of imagery or language into another form.
Choi Sooryeon’s ‘장엄연습’ is described as a work made by scanning paper exposed to sunlight, reprinting it, and arranging and wallpapering the resulting output in space. The process is said to culminate in a blue dancheong, the decorative traditional Korean pattern associated with architectural painting. The source frames the work through its production sequence, emphasizing repeated handling and spatial installation rather than a single finished image.
Choi Hae-ri’s ‘지금 장미와 백합이 시들어버렸었네’ takes as its starting point a line of poetry written in Middle English. The source says the artist translates the poem into visual art, shifting a sentence with disrupted tense into sculpture and painting. The work is presented as an act of moving language into another medium while retaining the tension created by the original wording.
The exhibition material does not provide a fuller curatorial statement, dates or venue-specific scheduling details beyond the museum attribution, but it does place the two artists in conversation through their shared interest in conversion and re-encoding. In one case, sunlight, paper, scanning and printing are turned into an installed visual surface; in the other, a historical poetic phrase becomes a sculptural and pictorial form.
Ilmin Museum of Art’s presentation draws attention to the ways both artists work with existing materials rather than starting from purely autonomous form. Choi Sooryeon’s piece develops through reproduction and arrangement, while Choi Hae-ri’s piece develops through translation from text to artwork. The source material presents these as distinct practices joined by an emphasis on process.
The exhibition is titled in the museum’s Korean-language material only through the individual works it cites, ‘장엄연습’ and ‘지금 장미와 백합이 시들어버렸었네’, and the source text offers these as the central anchors for the presentation. No further programme information appears in the provided material.
