The Narrative of Space and Time

LEE & BAE is hosting The Narrative of Space and Time, an exhibition by artists Minjeong Geum and Eunpil Cho, who express the identity of spaces—infused with diverse life stories over time—through various visual artworks. The exhibition explores spaces that are physically concrete, yet reflect the past experiences and present emotional states of individuals, revealing places with highly variable identities and narratives. Eunpil Cho's installation and video works use intense colors to create a visually immersive experience, while Minjeong Geum’s slow video pieces blend digital and analog mediums in harmony. Together, their works present the aesthetics of paradox, seemingly contradictory yet evocative, allowing viewers to recapture moments from the past within the present reality.

Dates

April 21, 2025 — June 13, 2025

Location

LEE & BAE, Busan

Hours

Tue — Sat, 10:00 — 18:00

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About the Artists

Minjeong Guem

Seoul, South Korea, b. 1977

Minjeong Guem was born in Seoul, Korea in 1977. She studied in Hongik University in Sculpture (BFA, MFA) in Seoul, Korea. She is known for media artist. She deconstructs and modifies where she is standing with her imagination and the space that she transform is a video within the screen, and she enjoys thinking and handling this in a material way. In the video, her story is unfolded and another new story is created by structurally deconstructing, transforming and/or reconstructing the space. She participated in several public art projects in Seoul and Busan, and residency programs in Green River project-Korea/Taiwan Exchange Artist Residency in Taiwan, The National Art Studio Goyang in Korea since 2007. The works are owned by various places, including Seoul Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Kumho Museum of Art, and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

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Eunphil Cho

Busan, South Korea, b. 1979

Eunphil Cho has experimented with variations in her work across a variety of media, among them sculpture, installation art, performance art, and site-specific art. With a background in sculpture, Cho transforms everyday objects and spaces into surreal, blue-hued environments that invite viewers into an otherworldly realm. As the color we recognize visually is very psychological thing, An individual can prefer specific colors, and sometimes this can even appear as a delusional tendency. In her case, the most important thing when she buy something is whether it is blue or not. In one respect, it can be regarded as just an individual taste. But as daily life come to be connected to blue stuff and space around them which are determined like that and these spaces become very familiar, she started to delude the blue color as her other self beyond the matter of just preference. And naturally it was to relate with world of art. Eunphil Cho's artwork is installation work transfering daily material into supernatural and uncommon space with blue-centered modeling element. This kind of installation work is original experiment and challenge. And the space created through this process offers experience of strange moment not only to observers but also herself. While blue symbolizes positive and ideal power, it also has extreme image which symbolizes grief, emptiness, and high solitude. But for her, blue has been used as transfering stuff and space of reality or excluding realistic images. In other words, it plays a role to get rid of reality completely in artwork, and it becomes major channel which translate reality into unreality. Also her formation of artwork in usage of color is a function of an equipment trying to restrict or overcome characteristic of specific space, and has escapism meaning.

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