Soluna Fine Art proudly presents Urban Reveries, featuring the works of four Korean artists: Choi Young-Bin, Lee Ja-Young, Park Jong-Ho, and Yoon Dong-Chun. In collaboration with SYHY Project, a Korean curatorial group dedicated to introducing talented emerging Korean artists, this exhibition aims to explore the intimate sensibilities and perspectives of individual artists rooted in Seoul, layered with the temporal and existential dimensions of urban experience.

Through each work, viewers are invited to wander the city’s emotional landscape, tracing the faint echoes of presence that linger in its corners. Four artists from different generations, all currently based in Seoul and working across various media, present works that evoke specific memories or emotions, creating distinct sensory layers that together form a synesthetic harmony.

Through her abstract paintings, Choi Young-Bin explores how the act of seeing constructs reality by reconfiguring the intersection of gaze and perspective within painterly space. Repeating and reshaping geometric figures across the canvas, her Falling Shapes series evokes the rhythmic, ephemeral qualities of urban life, offering a visual experience of the constant movement and vibrancy of everyday urban existence.

Rooted in Eastern Wu Wei philosophy and Western Deconstructionism, Lee Ja-Young’s abstract paintings create lyrical spaces where emotion, breath, and memory intertwine. By emphasizing brushwork as an existential and philosophical act of expression, her Flow series captures life as a continuous movement and serves as vessels that carry traces of life and the passage of time.

Focusing on the emotional interiority of individuals in marginalized social contexts, Park Jong-Ho’s paintings capture raw emotional resonance of unguarded personal states, delicately conveying the solitude and weight of existence in modern society. Caught between reality and memory, the characters in his figurative works are reflections of the countless individuals who keep the city running while also pursuing their own dreams.

Yoon Dong-Chun skillfully blends logic and emotion, critique and humor, creating works that challenge and blur the boundaries between art and reality. His Wisteria series convey layers of emotion, memory, and relationships through vine-like, flowing lines. The organic interplay of line and color metaphorically evokes the flow of life and the inner landscape, capturing gentle movement and profound sensitivity within the canvas.

As these works are displayed in the new context of Hong Kong, we hope the urban fragments and artistic expressions from Seoul will resonate with local audiences in a quiet yet profound way.

Urban Reveries will be on view at Soluna Fine Art from 19 June to 2 August 2025, with an opening reception on 19 June (Thur) at 6 - 8 pm.