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GB Artist Focus offers audiences the opportunity to meet artists, listen to their stories, and gain insight into their creative worlds. The program is organized in collaboration with various cultural and artistic spaces in Gwangju.
The eighth featured artist, Chun Young-rok, works by accumulating countless dots made with watercolor pigments mixed with melted snow on layers of handmade Korean paper (hanji). Through this process, color and form fill the surface in rhythmic repetition, creating patterns that evoke both order and movement. The densely layered dots shimmer like light hidden within snow, revealing vibrant hues that recall the ever-changing landscapes of nature and the passage of seasons.
His artistic practice can be viewed on the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s official YouTube channel.
Date: October 23, 2025
Venue: Gwangju Arts Center Gallery (60, Bukmun-daero, Buk-gu, Gwangju)
The event is held privately; the artist interview video will be available on the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s YouTube channel.
Organized by: Gwangju Biennale Foundation
[About the Artist]
Chun Young-rok graduated from the Department of Design (Textile) at Chosun University’s College of Fine Arts, where he also completed his graduate studies. He has been active through creative residencies and bases such as Horanggasinamu Art Polygon (2015) and the ACC Creation Space Residency at the Asia Culture Center (2018). Chun has presented 14 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Gwangju, Yeosu, Gunsan, China, Japan, and Berlin.
His works, composed of densely layered dots, reveal a spectrum of light hidden within snow—vividly unfolding in ever-shifting rhythms that recall the landscapes of nature and the cycles of the seasons.
Dyed by happy dreams, 51 × 73 cm, pigment on handmade Korean paper (hanji), 2021
Dyed by happy dreams,147 × 70 cm, pigment on handmade Korean paper (hanji), 2021
Dyed by happy dreams, 74 × 52 cm, pigment on handmade Korean paper (hanji), 2018