Serenity, a Time to Remain
ใ€ˆํ‰์˜จ, ๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ใ€‰

2026.02.04 – 02.21



Hong Seonghwa Solo Exhibition

<Serenity, a Time to Remain>


Exhibition Period
February 4 (Wed) – February 21 (Sat), 2026
โ€ป Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and during the Lunar New Year holidays

Venue
Gallery COLLAST

Opening Hours
12:00 – 19:00


Some landscapes touch the body before they are understood. Standing 

before Seonghwa Hong’s paintings is like stepping into the stillness of a hushed dawn.

As Merleau-Ponty suggested, seeing is not a mere analysis but a way of being 

intertwined with the world. Figures adopt the pulse of plants as their breath 

and the patterns of leaves as their skin. By emptying the self instead of imposing 

artificial definitions onto the raw linen, Hong allows the subjects to enter 

the space on their own terms. 

Through the patient accumulation of layered color, the canvas gradually 

reaches a density that lifts itself toward a moment of quiet liberation.

Here, time stops its horizontal flow and sinks into the depths. Moving 

beyond artificial definitions, this exhibition is a serene first breath, inviting you 

to sense the true texture of existence away from the frantic pace of the world.



์–ด๋–ค ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ์ดํ•ด๋˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ € ๋ชธ์— ๋‹ฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

ํ™์„ฑํ™”์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์•ž์— ์„œ๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์†Œ๋ž€์ด ๋ฉŽ์€ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ, 

๊ฐ€๋ผ์•‰์€ ์ •์  ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒ ํ•™์ž ๋ฉ”๋ฅผ๋กœ ํํ‹ฐ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ž‘๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ์€ ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์„ธ๊ณ„์™€ ๊นŠ์ด 

๋’ค์—‰ํ‚ค๋Š” ์กด์žฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฐ•์„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํ˜ธํก์œผ๋กœ ์น˜ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์žŽ์‚ฌ๊ท€์˜ ๋ฌด๋Šฌ๋ฅผ 

์‚ด๊ฒฐ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋„จ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋นˆ ๋Œ€์ง€์— ์ธ์œ„์ ์ธ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์‹ฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋น„์›Œ๋ƒ„์œผ๋กœ์จ 

๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ฌ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒน๊ฒน์ด ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์ด 

์™„์ „ํ•œ ๋ฐ€๋„์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ํ™”๋ฉด์€ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋น„์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์ด์ œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ผ์•‰์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์ธ์œ„์ ์ธ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ˆจ ๊ฐ€์œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ž ์‹œ ์ดํƒˆํ•ด 

๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์กด์žฌ์˜ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ์˜ค๋กฏ์ด ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ์ •๊ฐˆํ•œ ์ฒซ ํ˜ธํก์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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์ „์‹œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„:  2026๋…„ 2์›” 4์ผ(์ˆ˜) ~ 2์›” 21์ผ(ํ† )   (์ผ, ์›”์š”์ผ, ์„ค์—ฐํœด ํœด๋ฌด)


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2026

Hong Seonghwa Solo Exhibition

Serenity, a Time to Remain
ใ€ˆํ‰์˜จ, ๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ใ€‰



Exhibition Statement

Some landscapes do not ask to be understood, but to be entered.โ€จStanding before Hong Seonghwa’s paintings feels like stepping quietly into the stillness of early dawn—into a moment when noise recedes and the world settles into a low, steady breath.

Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty once described painting as “an event in which the world and the body reveal themselves together.” In this view, vision is not a detached tool for observing objects, but a mode of existence already entangled with the world. On Hong Seonghwa’s canvases, this phenomenological proposition takes on a cool, tactile presence across the porous grain of linen. The figures here do not look at plants as external others. Instead, they translate the pulse of vegetation into their own breathing, receiving the patterns of leaves as extensions of their own skin. Where the cold distance between observer and observed collapses, only the permeable warmth of what Merleau-Ponty called “the flesh of being” remains.

This mode of existential resonance unfolds as a contemporary variation of mulhwa (็‰ฉๅŒ–), an ancient Eastern concept of transformation through becoming. Just as Zhuangzi once dreamed he was a butterfly and forgot whether he was Zhuangzi or the butterfly, the figures in Hong’s paintings slowly dissolve into green vascular networks, erasing the boundaries of the self. Such union is possible only through the attitude of heojeong (่™›้œ)—emptiness and stillness—not as passive quietude, but as an active refusal to assert the self. Rather than planting imposed narratives onto the blank terrain of linen, the artist empties herself, creating a space into which her subjects may enter of their own accord. Freed from fixed definitions, figures and flowers begin to breathe in their own right, resting side by side on the same temporal plane, without hierarchy.

The figures in these paintings appear solitary, yet they are never isolated. They are fragments of a world woven from the same density as plant stems, humid air, and translucent particles of light. Here, solitude is no longer a lack, but a full awareness of being intricately connected with all things. Unnamed emotions drift through layers of blue pigment like clear streams, while untranslated consolation settles softly onto the viewer’s senses as silent waves.

The exhibition Serenity, a Time to Remain does not stage a struggle to define or explain. Instead, it releases the obligation to arrive at answers and records the act of remaining—following the subtle grain of feeling. Serenity here is not a fixed goal, but a fleeting equilibrium granted only to those who linger long enough. Through the laborious accumulation of layered color, the surface gradually reaches a complete density; at that moment, the painting lifts itself in a sudden, radiant release. When slow accretion reaches its peak, a vivid trace of vitality breaks through the heavy silence and inscribes itself onto the linen.

Time, at this point, ceases to move forward. It sinks vertically, toward depth. The weight of this descent ultimately draws even the viewer’s pulse into the rhythm of the painting. Hong Seonghwa’s work speaks not through grand rhetoric, but through the force of silence. She leaves open a transparent fissure in the linen and waits—for our gaze to slip willingly into that quiet expanse of time. This exhibition moves beyond contemplation; it offers a discreet and lucid first breath, in which we momentarily step away from the frantic speed of the world and begin, at last, to sense the texture of existence that surrounds us.

(Curatorial Text · Yeseul Lee)


Hong Seonghwa Solo Exhibition
Serenity, a Time to Remainโ€จใ€ˆํ‰์˜จ, ๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ใ€‰

์ „์‹œ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๊ธ€

์–ด๋–ค ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ์ดํ•ด๋˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ € ๋ชธ์— ๋‹ฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. ํ™์„ฑํ™”์˜ ํ™”๋ฉด ์•ž์— ์„œ๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์†Œ๋ž€์ด ๋ฉŽ์€ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ, ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋ผ์•‰์€ ์ •์  ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๋‹ฎ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒ ํ•™์ž ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋ฉ”๋ฅผ๋กœ ํํ‹ฐ๋Š” ํšŒํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ผœ ‘์„ธ๊ณ„์™€ ๋ชธ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ฑด’์ด๋ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ์ด๋ž€ ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ด๋ฏธ ์„ธ๊ณ„์™€ ๋’ค์—‰์ผœ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กด์žฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋‹ค. ํ™์„ฑํ™”์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—์„œ ์ด ํ˜„์ƒํ•™์  ๊ฐ€์„ค์€ ์„ฑ๊ธด ๋ฆฌ๋„จ์˜ ๊ฒฐ ์œ„์—์„œ ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ์‹ค์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ์‹๋ฌผ์„ ํƒ€์ž๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฐ•์„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํ˜ธํก์œผ๋กœ ์น˜ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์žŽ์‚ฌ๊ท€์˜ ๋ฌด๋Šฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ด๊ฒฐ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์ฐฐ์ž์™€ ๋Œ€์ƒ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง„ ์ž๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์˜ค์ง ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์˜จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ‘์กด์žฌ์˜ ์‚ด’๋งŒ์ด ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กด์žฌ์  ๊ต๊ฐ์€ ๋™์–‘์˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์‚ฌ์œ ์ธ ‘๋ฌผํ™”(็‰ฉๅŒ–)’์˜ ํ˜„๋Œ€์  ๋ณ€์ฃผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์žฅ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฟˆ์†์—์„œ ๋‚˜๋น„์™€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋“ฏ, ํ™”๋ฉด ์† ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋ฉฐ ์ž์•„์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ง€์šด๋‹ค. ์ด ํ•ฉ์ผ์€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋น„์›Œ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ‘ํ—ˆ์ •(่™›้œ)’์˜ ํƒœ๋„๊ฐ€ ์ „์ œ๋˜์–ด์•ผ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋„จ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋นˆ ๋Œ€์ง€์— ์ธ์œ„์ ์ธ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ๋„๋ฆฌ์–ด ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋น„์›Œ๋ƒ„์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ฌ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•œ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ •์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์›Œ์ง„ ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ์ œ์•ผ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์ˆจ์„ ์‰ฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ์œ„๊ณ„๋„ ์—†์ด ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ธต์œ„ ์œ„์— ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ๊ฑธํ„ฐ์•‰๋Š”๋‹ค.๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์† ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ํ™€๋กœ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ์ค„๊ธฐ, ์Šตํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธฐ, ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋น›์˜ ์ž…์ž์™€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋ฐ€๋„๋กœ ์ง์กฐ๋œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ํŒŒํŽธ๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋…์€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฒฐํ•์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋งŒ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฌ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์น˜ํ™˜๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋ถ™์—ฌ์ง€์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •๋“ค์€ ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ์ง€์ธต ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง‘์€ ๋ฌผ์ค„๊ธฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•ด๋…๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์œ„๋กœ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ์—†๋Š” ํŒŒ๋™์ด ๋˜์–ด ๊ด€๊ฐ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์œ„์— ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ๋‚ด๋ ค์•‰๋Š”๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ ใ€ˆํ‰์˜จ, ๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ใ€‰์€ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ทœ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์œ ์˜ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋‹ต์„ ๋‚ด๋†“์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ์ € ‘๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„’ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ํ‰์˜จ์€ ๋ฐ•์ œ๋œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅธ ์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ํ—ˆ๋ฝ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ๊ท ํ˜•์ด๋‹ค. ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒน๊ฒน์ด ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๋ฐ€๋„์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ํ™”๋ฉด์€ ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‹จ์ˆจ์— ๋น„์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋А๋ฆฐ ์ถ•์ ์ด ์ •์ ์— ๋‹ค๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฐฐ๋‚˜, ๋ฌต์งํ•œ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ํ„ฐ์ ธ ๋‚˜์˜จ ์ƒ๋ช…๋ ฅ์˜ ์ˆจํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฆฌ๋„จ ์œ„์— ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์ธ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.์ด๋•Œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ํ๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์—ฐ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ง์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ผ์•‰๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊นŠ์€ ํ•˜๊ฐ•์˜ ์†๋„๋Š” ๋๋‚ด ๊ด€๊ฐ์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฐ•๋งˆ์ € ํ™”๋ฉด์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ •๊ตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํŽธ์ž…์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ํ™์„ฑํ™”์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•œ ์ˆ˜์‚ฌํ•™ ๋Œ€์‹  ์นจ๋ฌต์˜ ํž˜์„ ๋นŒ๋ ค ๋ง์„ ๊ฑด๋„จ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋„จ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ‹ˆ์ƒˆ๋ฅผ ์—ด์–ด๋‘๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์ด ๊ทธ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆด ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๊ด€์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ˆจ ๊ฐ€์œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ž ์‹œ ์ดํƒˆํ•ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์กด์žฌ์˜ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ๊ฐ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์€๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ์ •๊ฐˆํ•œ ์ฒซ ํ˜ธํก์ด๋‹ค.

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Artist


ํ™์„ฑํ™” (Hong Seonghwa)




collast0711@naver.com

4F eitheror, 156 Gwangnaru-Ro, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul, Korea


โ“’ 2023 collast. All rights reserved.

collast0711@naver.com

4F eitheror, 156 Gwangnaru-Ro, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul, Korea

โ“’ 2023 collast. All rights reserved.