Landing Point: Group Exhibition

Where to look, what to hold in hand, how to depict, and upon which picture plane to land. Painting is an ongoing process of tuning the relationship between the world and oneself. It involves the challenge of transforming sensations, plucked from the entirety of both visible and invisible elements, into the tangible properties of materials. Each picture plane ultimately becomes a place of pause. There, the painter's passing present lingers.

The painterly apparition, having made its way onto the canvas through the artist's body, metamorphoses into a new entity with each passing moment. Shadows of reality morph into mist, and the once trivial brushstrokes are reborn as radiant light. The art of painting captivates the viewer, holding them in its unique temporal and spatial embrace. Thus, the canvas becomes a place of its own. With every intersection of the painter's and the viewer's gazes, the present is continuously reborn. At this landing point here and now, in the midst of a momentary pause to gauge the direction of the next leap.

The eyes of the artists continuously search for the unknown truth; in the course of the history of art, that continues endlessly without a predetermined destination. The picture plane, as a temporary pause, becomes each person's marker planted along this eternal path. They are records of past trajectories and markers to ensure we do not retread the same path. Now, from this landing point, we gauge the direction of another takeoff. How shall we drift? Upon what shall we step, and towards where shall we row? The driving force behind pioneering a new route is always the picture planes of now.

Excerpt from the curatorial essay "Landing Point", Miran Park (Deputy Director at Arario Gallery)