Hyun Contemporary's Artist Promotion of the Month



Inyoung Seoung: Stream of Unconsciousness

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 10^th from 6-8PM


Elga Wimmer-Hyun Contemporary
526 West 26 Street #310, New York City
hyuncontemporary@gmail.com, 212. 206. 0006 or 201. 724. 7077
Tue-Fri: 12-6, Sat: 12-3 or by appointment


Can one be conscious during a moment of unconsciousness?
At times, artists fall deeply into their work, into a state of mind where they lose conscious awareness and detach from the tangible sensitivity of their physical bodies. While in this conscious yet unconscious state, the artists’ works will contain an essence that has never been revealed.
The numerous lines that make up Inyoung Seoung’s works define an artist’s journey into her subconscious mind. While trees may all look the same, each tree is different from the next, and no two are alike. This is the same with people. Most individuals in a community are not aware of their unique desires as a group, but within the subconscious, these unique desires are internalized and catalogued into a web of relationships we are not consciously aware of.
In order to delve into this hidden mind, Seoung maintained a meditative state of unconsciousness while drawing repetitive lines. Each line or “branch” is uniquely different in its detail, weight, and movement; at the same time, these organic “branches” form a connective community. Therefore, these “branches” essentially represent the desires of the subconscious mind and its relativity to the singular and the whole: in people and nature alike.
Inyoung Seoung graduated from Hong-Ik University with a Bachelor of Arts in sculpture. After immigrating to the U.S., she has received recognition for her installations and drawings, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in New York, New Jersey and California and she will have solo show at Monmouth Museum in New Jersey in this fall. She just had a solo exhibition last month in Chelsea, New York.