When Time Becomes Poetry_์‹œ(่ฉฉ)๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„


Solo Exhibition by Hyeonjin Jeong

2025. 09. 06 - 09. 27

1-2F, 1526, Sangam-dong, Seoul







Artist Hyeonjin Jeong

Gallery Afternoon is pleased to present When Time Becomes Poetry, a solo exhibition by Hyeonjin Jeong (b.1993), on view from September 6 to 27, 2025.

Jeong's practice transforms ordinary moments of daily life and subtle inner emotions into visual narratives. With a background in interior design, she brings a strong sense of space into her paintings. The spaces in her works aren't just backgrounds. They carry emotion, and the gestures of the figures draw you deeper into the scene.

She first worked with color pencil drawings, and turned to oil painting, developing a warm, pointillist style that builds depth through color. As the colors overlap and blend, waves of emotion slowly emerge, creating a calm but powerful resonance.

For the artist, color is never fixed. It shifts and vibrates with light and emotion, turning simple moments into something special and poetic. Her paintings invite you in quietly, offering a sense of connection and comfort.


๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์• ํ”„ํ„ฐ๋ˆˆ์€ ์˜ค๋Š” 9์›” 6์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 27์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „์†์ž‘๊ฐ€ ์ •ํ˜„์ง„(b.1993)์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ <When Time Becomes Poetry_์‹œ(่ฉฉ)๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„>์„ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ •ํ˜„์ง„์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ์—†๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์ •์„œ๋ฅผ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์„œ์‚ฌ๋กœ ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค๋‚ด๋””์ž์ธ ์ „๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํš๋“ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ํšŒํ™”๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ํ™”๋ฉด ์† ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ๊ฐ์ •์ด ํ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ฒด๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ธ๋ฌผ์˜ ๋ชธ์ง“๊ณผ ์ž์„ธ๋Š” ๊ด€๋žŒ์ž๋ฅผ ํ™”๋ฉด์˜ ๊นŠ์ด๋กœ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ƒ‰์—ฐํ•„ ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„์˜ ๊ฒฐ์„ ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ์œ ํ™”๋กœ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ ๋ฌ˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ํ™”๋ฉด์˜ ๊นŠ์ด๊ฐ์„ ์Œ“๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ๊ต์ฐจํ•˜๊ณ  ์นจํˆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ํŒŒ๋™ ์†์—์„œ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ๊ฒฐ์€ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒ‰์˜ ์ธต์€ ์ •์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•œ ์ •์„œ์  ์šธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ํŠน์œ ์˜ '๊ฐ์ •์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ฑ'์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์† ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋Š” ๊ณ ์ •๋œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์˜ ์ƒ‰์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ๋น›๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ํŒŒ์žฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ง„๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ™•์žฅ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •ํ˜„์ง„์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒ‰์˜ ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ์ •์„œ์  ํŒŒ๋™์„ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ ค, ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„์กดํ•˜๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ์‘์ถ•์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ํ™”๋ฉด์€ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์ฃผ์žฅ ์—†์ด, ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์ด์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค์–ด ์ž‘์€ ๊ณต๋ช…๊ณผ ์œ„์•ˆ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ์„ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

<์ž‘๊ฐ€๋…ธํŠธ>

์‹œ(่ฉฉ)๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„


๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์‚ถ ์†์—๋‚˜ ์ž๊ธฐ๋งŒ์˜ ‘์‹œ(่ฉฉ)’๊ฐ€ ๊นƒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์ด๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด์˜ ์š”๋ž€ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋Š” ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์˜คํ›„์˜ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์Šค์น˜๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณค ํ•œ๋‹ค. 


๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์žฅ๋ฉด๋“ค์€ ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์–ด๋А ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์„ ๋•Œ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์†์— ์“ฐ์ธ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ™์€ ์žฅ์†Œ, ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฒช๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์€ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๋กœ ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋น›์˜ ์ž”ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ถ™์žก๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ๋” ๋˜๋ ทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ„์งํ•œ๋‹ค. 


์ž‘์—…๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ‘๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์‹œ(่ฉฉ)’๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์† ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฐํžˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ ,   ๋ณด๋Š” ์ด์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๋ˆˆ์•ž์˜ ์žฅ๋ฉด๊ณผ ๊ฒน์ณ์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์— ์ž ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€, ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ์ฝํ˜€์ง€๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค.

ART WORKS

Hyeonjin Jeong

A Little Time Alone

Oil on canvas

72.7 x 53 cm
2025


Hyeonjin Jeong

Afternoon Lull

Oil on canvas

60.6 x 90.9 cm
2025


Hyeonjin Jeong

At the Gentle End of Day

Oil on canvas

91 x 116.8 cm
2025

Hyeonjin Jeong

One Summer’s Day

Oil on canvas

72.7 x 60.6 cm

2025


Hyeonjin Jeong

Silent Noise

Oil on canvas

145.5 x 97 cm
2025


Hyeonjin Jeong

The Unhurried Golden Hour

Oil on canvas

90.9 x 72.7 cm
2025