Jimok Choi

Jimok Choi suggests new interpretations and alternative perspectives contrasting to rigid formality and stereotypical view towards the traditional painting. Working with painting, installation, performance, he has developed unique artistic style. He selects ordinary objects containing cultural symbolism and signs as staple medium; then, by dissembling and recombining them to let their insides out, he reveals his personal attitudes towards social stereotypes. New painting series by Choi can be perceived as a rich pictorial archive of afterimages left on his retinae exposed to an overwhelming light. The documentations delivering his resistance against ever-changing optical stimuli are multifarious, although they are responses of a single organ—eyes; therefore, his practice encourages the audience to contemplate the arbitrary relation between experiences per se and how they visually manifest. Choi Jimok held solo exhibitions at Can Foundation(2019), Kim Jong Young Museum(2022), and Chapter II(2023).