Omae Gallery to host Seong Min-woo solo exhibition "Beside" exploring connections in nature

While grasses growing by the roadside often receive little attention, they survive persistently through changing seasons to sprout once again. The vitality of a single small blade of grass contains the natural time and relationships that we may fail to notice.

Omae Gallery will host "Beside," a solo exhibition by artist Seong Min-woo, who has long explored the world of grass, starting on the 20th. This exhibition captures the artist's perspective of viewing grass not merely as plant shapes, but as living beings that form relationships with the entities around them.

In the new "Garden of Grass_Constellations" series, grasses positioned throughout the canvas connect to create a single landscape. The artist interprets the rectangular canvas as a frame created by humans to understand and categorize nature. Within this frame, the grasses stretch in different directions while interacting with the wind, light, and surrounding vegetation. Much like how stars scattered in the night sky are read as a single constellation, the work focuses on the relationships formed by individual lives.

The accompanying "Fading Grass" series uses silver to express the passage of time, utilizing the material's characteristic of gradually oxidizing and losing luster upon contact with air.

"The slowly fading silver is not extinction, but a process of a grand cycle returning beyond the human perception of the frame," Seong Min-woo explained. He has linked the physical change of the artwork itself to the cycles of nature.
 

Having examined the relationship between grass and the human body in early works, Seong Min-woo has gradually expanded his interest to the ways living things in nature influence one another. In this exhibition, grass does not remain merely an object of observation; it prompts a reflection on the fact that humans, as part of nature, exist alongside other living beings.

The exhibition runs until November 14. Viewing hours are from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and the gallery is closed on Sundays and Mondays.

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