Two Shores brings together South Korean artists Lee Hyun Joung and Kwang Bum Jang in a contemplative dialogue on time, memory, and material. Their works echo one another like distant coastlines, shaped by tradition, rhythm, and spiritual presence.
Galerie Sept is proud to present Two Shores, a summer exhibition that brings together, for the first time, South Korean artists Lee Hyun Joung and Kwang Bum Jang. While distinct in their media and techniques, both artists explore the meditative possibilities of repetition, rhythm, and spiritual presence in visual form.
This encounter is more than a curatorial proposal. It is a poetic and personal reunion—Lee, one of the first artists to exhibit with the gallery, returns alongside Jang, a recent but already vital addition to the program. Together, their works form a conversation across time, tradition, and contemporary abstraction.
Working with Korean pigment on Hanji paper, Lee Hyun Joung traces delicate, introspective paths—each line becoming a meditation on memory, space, and inner silence. Her practice echoes the restrained intensity of Agnes Martin, while remaining rooted in Korean aesthetics and spiritual gestures.
In contrast, Kwang Bum Jang builds his paintings through countless layers of acrylic paint, which he sands down to reveal hidden rhythms and ghostly textures. Influenced by the Dansaekhwa movement, as well as Western painters like Rothko and the cinematic language of Tarkovsky, Jang’s paintings invite deep stillness and reflection—paintings that do not depict time, but become it.
Two Shores reflects two visions of slow creation—two languages shaped by hand, spirit, and memory. The exhibition invites viewers to enter a contemplative space, where abstraction becomes a form of presence, and form becomes a way to cross between past and present, East and West, silence and resonance.
The exhibition opens Saturday, June 28th in Room 1 of Galerie Sept’s seaside space in Knokke, and will remain on view throughout the summer.
