Language
Landscape
Koo Seongyoun
This space features photographic works by Koo Seong Yeon, whose practice reveals the abstraction and temporality of nature through refined images of rocks, stones, and earth.
In this particular work, the artist photographs an actual suseok—a naturally shaped stone traditionally appreciated in East Asian aesthetics. However, the composition, textures, and use of negative space evoke the quiet sensibility of an ink landscape painting.
The rock captured here is not merely an object; it is a form shaped by time—eroded, layered, and weathered through natural forces. Koo presents it as a pure abstract sculpture, one completed without human intervention, inviting viewers to contemplate the innate formal beauty of nature.
Her gaze resonates with the traditions of ink painting. Mountains rise like drifting clouds, stones emerge as sensations before language, and the boundaries between figuration and abstraction dissolve.
Koo’s photographs go beyond representation. They become visual meditations, inviting a quiet reflection on the relationship between nature and perception, abstraction and reality.
In front of this work, we invite you to pause. Focus on the grain of the rock, the flow of empty space, the density of light. Beyond the visible surface, notice how time, emotion, silence, and attention gently permeate the image—layer by layer, sense by sense.
In this particular work, the artist photographs an actual suseok—a naturally shaped stone traditionally appreciated in East Asian aesthetics. However, the composition, textures, and use of negative space evoke the quiet sensibility of an ink landscape painting.
The rock captured here is not merely an object; it is a form shaped by time—eroded, layered, and weathered through natural forces. Koo presents it as a pure abstract sculpture, one completed without human intervention, inviting viewers to contemplate the innate formal beauty of nature.
Her gaze resonates with the traditions of ink painting. Mountains rise like drifting clouds, stones emerge as sensations before language, and the boundaries between figuration and abstraction dissolve.
Koo’s photographs go beyond representation. They become visual meditations, inviting a quiet reflection on the relationship between nature and perception, abstraction and reality.
In front of this work, we invite you to pause. Focus on the grain of the rock, the flow of empty space, the density of light. Beyond the visible surface, notice how time, emotion, silence, and attention gently permeate the image—layer by layer, sense by sense.