On view through 24 December 2026, the two-person exhibition Out of the Ashes brings together Korean artists Yejin Oh and Changyeol Gu to stage an intense psychological realignment, grounded in the premise that profound metamorphosis demands the prior disintegration of the known self.
Yejin Oh channels lived tensions of fixation and inner unrest through an exacting, repetitive application of pigment, quietly mapping fragile states of consciousness onto the picture plane.
A pervasive, deep blue dominates her visual language, evoking both tranquil stillness and unresolved grief.
When this meditative palette confronts the violence of combustion, the image of a burning rose surfaces as a searing allegory—marking the precarious precipice before annihilation where unspoken desolation coalesces into an internal wasteland, harboring the dormant seeds of renewal beneath the soot.
Where Oh navigates internal ruins, Changyeol Gu summons the untamed impetus of survival.
Departing from literal botanical realism, Gu pares flora down to centrifugal, energetic currents of non-representational pigment and line.
Rather than succumbing to passive environmental conditioning, this organic propulsion stems from an urgent, primordial impulse: an anonymous resolve that bleeds across pictorial thresholds, unfurling vigorously over the fragmented azure fields and incinerated floral remnants left in Oh’s wake.
Between Oh’s quiet reconstruction of memory and Gu’s unbridled expansion, the dialogue between both artists converges on a single continuum where devastation gives way to visceral regeneration, relentlessly moving forward without regret.
