Won Kyung Cho

About

Based in London, she studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University. In her work centered on painting, she visually explores emotions, memories, body sensations, and the gap between the inside and the outside through the materials of stripes and fabrics.

Her work takes repetitive stripes as its main form. However, this stripe is not just a decoration, but a record left by the flow of emotions and body movements, and at the same time, it is an abstract self-portrait that reveals the artist himself. The rhythm of the line, the pressure of the brush, the brightness and concentration of the color, and the wrinkles remaining on the fabric all constitute the texture of emotions and visually translate the invisible psychological state.

The artist pays particular attention to the material called cloth. Fabric is the material closest to the body, and it is a material that covers and hides emotions and accepts them at the same time. The stripes drawn above are created while emotions are pressed, folded, and tangled, and the traces record the artist’s inner side and become a space where the audience can shine their emotions. At this time, for the artist, ‘fabric’ is not a simple surface of a painting, but a body that contains emotions and is like a skin

She was greatly influenced by Giorgio Griffia’s painterly attitude. Like Griffia, she accepts painting as a state where emotions stay rather than as a result. The lines left on the cloth contain unfinished emotions, that is, an unfixed image of the self and a portrait without an image

Her work quietly unfolds unsaid emotions in visual language. The artist leaves a trace of herself through painting and at the same time leaves a margin for viewers to think of their own stories. That emotional margin is the most honest portrait she paints.