A Normal Afternoon Oh Hyuckjin , 2025 Mixed media on canvas 162.2 × 130.3 cm
Whitestone Gallery Seoul presented Where Winter Met Our Glow from December 13, 2025 to January 18, 2026, an exhibition that invited audiences to consider how memories leave lasting emotional and sensory impressions.
Featuring works by three contemporary artists—Oh Hyuckjin, Sunny Kim, and Kim Jak’young—the show unfolded through a thoughtful combination of painting, installation, and video art, each medium offering a unique entry point into the subjective experience of recollection.
At the heart of the exhibition was a single sentence about “memory,” composed by 37 creators working across a range of artistic disciplines.
These texts, grounded in individual lived experience, carried distinct temporal markers and emotional valences.
In Where Winter Met Our Glow, the three participating artists engaged with these written recollections, reinterpreting them through their own visual languages and inviting visitors to witness the transformation of personal narrative into collective visual experience.
As the exhibition progressed, the pieces on view gradually revealed the myriad ways in which the past continued to inform the present.
Oh Hyuckjin played a central role in this thematic translation.
Tasked with transforming the brief written recollections into visual form, he developed a series of paintings that married tactile surface qualities with a subdued palette.
Using materials such as gel stone and oil pastel, Oh created textured surfaces that were at once rough and inviting, allowing emotions that often evade verbal expression to emerge through shifts in color and gesture.
His work in the exhibition demonstrated how physicality and visual rhythm could evoke subtle emotional states, encouraging prolonged engagement and reflection.
Green Growing Together 2025 Mixed media on canvas 162.2 × 130.3 cm , Oh Hyuckjin
Born in 1997, Oh initially trained in visual design before expanding his practice into painting.
In Where Winter Met Our Glow, he advanced a distinct pictorial language grounded in the nuanced representation of feeling.
His paintings paired raw, uneven textures with warm, absorbing hues, articulating both vulnerability and quiet resilience.
Me Under the Apple Tree Oh Hyuckjin, 2025 Mixed media on canvas 145.4 × 112.1 cm
As the written tones of the source texts grew more restrained, Oh’s brushwork became progressively pronounced, allowing emotional density and compositional rhythm to surface with increasing clarity.
Throughout its run, the exhibition drew attention from local audiences and critics alike for its meditative approach to one of the most elusive subjects in contemporary art.
By situating personal memories within a shared visual framework, Where Winter Met Our Glow offered viewers an opportunity to reflect on the enduring influence of the past while experiencing the transformative power of artistic interpretation.
2025
Mixed media on canvas
162.2 × 130.3 cm
A Landscape Where Only You Remain Oh Hyuckjin
