Choi Su-in, School of Visual Arts, Presents a Solo Exhibition, “He Gives Me Butterflies. Love”

Until 7 October at the Artside Gallery, “He Gives Me Butterflies,” a solo exhibition by Choi Su-in, an alumna of the School of Visual Arts, is on display. Choi is a visual artist who pays attention to the relationship and feelings derived from it. Instead of discarding the feelings as side products, Choi reshapes them into visual objects, trying to induce personal experience and empathy residing between discomfort and sincerity from the viewers.

As she said, “There is a fake in every moment,” Choi portrays objects on display with affection while illuminating the fakeness amid them, in a way ultimately exposing the disparity between them.

In Choi’s work eponymous to the exhibition title, “He Gives Me Butterflies,” the waves cling to each other as expressions of affection. About the exhibition, Choi Su-in commented, “It is a record of omnipresent relationships. It is also about the self or situation that one wants to hide the most. At the same time, it is a memory and experience of the moments one desires to be most recognized.”