KIJA KWON : Inside out


๊ถŒ๊ธฐ์ž์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์˜ค์ผ์„ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค ์œ„์— ํ˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŠ€๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฒน์˜ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์ด ์ถ•์ ๋˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ตณ์–ด์ง€๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋–ผ์–ด๋‚ด์–ด ์กฐํ˜•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ˜•์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ง€์†๊ณผ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฆ‰ํฅ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํŠ€๊ธฐ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ์—ฐ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์˜๋„์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ณ€์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์‚ฐ๋ฌผ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์ถ•์ ๋˜๊ณ  ๋ณ€ํ˜•๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋น„์œ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค.


์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ํˆฌ์˜์ฒด๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ์ƒ‰์€ ๊ด€๋žŒ์ž์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ธ์ง€๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์ธต์  ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฒน์˜ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ์‘์ถ•๋˜์–ด ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์˜ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์‹ฌ์—ฐ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์†์— ์ž ์žฌ๋œ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์•”์‹œํ•œ๋‹ค.


ํŠนํžˆ ๊ถŒ๊ธฐ์ž์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ถ•์ ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์ด ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ตณ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‚จ๊ธด ์ž์ทจ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์Šค๋ž€ํžˆ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง€๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ํž˜์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์†์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ํ–ฅ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ž์—ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์ง„๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ๋‹ค.


  • ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2024๋…„ 9์›” 13์ผ(๊ธˆ) - 9์›” 28์ผ(ํ† )
  • ์œ„์น˜: ์Šคํ…”๋ผ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ (์„œ์šธ์‹œ ๋ด‰์€์‚ฌ๋กœ 49๊ธธ 17)
  • ๋ฌธ์˜: 02-512-7277 / INSTA DM (stellargallery_official)
  • ์šด์˜: ํ™”-ํ†  2-8pm (์ผ, ์›”, ๊ณตํœด์ผ ํœด๊ด€)
  • ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ์ „์‹œ/์ฃผ์ฐจ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ


Kija Kwon's work begins with an innovative technique, pouring and splashing paint and oil onto the canvas to create unpredictable forms. As multiple layers of paint accumulate and harden, she peels them away, transforming the material into sculptural elements that visually represent the passage and evolution of time. This spontaneous and free-flowing method captures the results of chance as the paint flows and splatters, merging the artist's intent with physical variables to produce a work that is the outcome of both intention and serendipity. Through this process, Kwon metaphorically reveals how emotions and memories accumulate and transform over time.

In her works, color transcends its purely visual function, becoming a vehicle for emotional projection. Each hue is perceived differently, depending on the viewer’s personal experiences, and is imbued with layered emotions and energy. When multiple layers of paint coalesce into a single color, it reflects the complex depths of emotions and memories, hinting at the latent meanings within.


Kwon’s exploration is particularly focused on the accumulation of time and its resulting transformations. As paint flows and solidifies, the traces of time are etched into the work, embodying the forces of nature and time as they permeate the piece, reconfiguring emotions and memories in the process. This exhibition goes beyond mere visual enjoyment, offering a profound contemplation of time, nature, and the deeper truths of the inner self.



  • Dates: September 13 (Fri) - September 28 (Sat), 2024
  • Location: Stellar Gallery (17, Bongeunsa-ro 49-gil, Seoul)
  • Inquiries: 02-512-7277 / INSTA DM (stellargallery_official)
  • Hours: Tue-Sat 2-8pm (Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and public holidays)
  • Free Admission / Parking Available