Jisoo Kang from Republic of Korea
Website : https://kangjisoo.com/
Creation and production residency: April 25 to June 26
Exhibition at Members' Gallery, Espace 517: June 16 to 25, opening and presentation of work on June 18 at 5p.m.
Jisoo Kang is a visual artist from South Korea.
She studied Western painting and continues her practice with a focus on oil painting, exploring organic forms that arise from emotional states.
Her recent work visualizes subtle shifts in memory and feeling through imagined botanical forms. By combining traditional painting with drawing-based processes, she creates internal landscapes that move between abstraction and figuration.
She is currently participating in the artist residency at Atelier Circulaire, where she is expanding her practice through intaglio techniques such as etching and aquatint. These printmaking methods serve as a new medium to translate the delicate gestures of drawing into a material and meditative experience.
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Artist Statement – Jisoo Kang
<Blooming Vibration>
There are emotions that cannot be contained by language.
They quietly settle in the heart,
and then one day, they become a dot,
a line,
and begin to bloom.
When the heart trembles in unfamiliar places,
that trembling spreads like a silent vibration.
And in the stillness of each day,
the vibration begins to take shape—
as lines, as forms.
Drawing is an instinctive breath.
Emotions, layered over time,
gently grow into a single form.
The forms that emerge—
I can only call them flowers.
They don’t exist in reality,
yet they resemble me.
They are imagined plants,
grown from unnamed emotions,
existing only within me.
At a certain moment,
an inner tremor comes to rest,
and an image condenses.
I hold onto that fleeting moment.
Unfamiliar feelings
have taken root
and become my own plants.
And even now,
I am still blooming.