Now open at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul Fort Hill: Heemin Chung, Garden of Turmoil
In her artworks, Chung examines the material potential of digital imagery to reimagine the virtual landscape in painterly and sculptural terms.
Images of the natural world, including seashells, stones, waves, flowers and tree bark, form the basis of her compositions. Retrieved from online databases and manipulated using 3D digital modelling software, these motifs are transferred directly onto canvas or transparent sheets of gel medium. The two bronze sculptures on view resemble tangled tree branches or helical strands of DNA. Their hybrid forms, like those encrusted in her paintings, emerge through processes of digital distortion. Evoking glitches, variations and mutations, they capture the tension between order and entropy that defines both natural and digital systems.
Visit the exhibition until 7 February 2026.
