Enseoul is pleased to present What remains, a duo exhibition of new works by Bohyeon Hwang and Sanghyuk Kim. The exhibition will be opened during the festive Gallery Night on Friday 5 September from 17:00 to 20:00. This exhibition examines the beauty of incompleteness and asks whether wholeness, as we imagine it, exists at all.
Both artists begin from a shared premise: that essence reveals itself not through perfection but through fracture, absence, and transformation. By peeling away ideals projected onto the object and the figure, Hwang and Kim test what is left once the notion of completeness is dismantled.
Bohyeon Hwang’s paintings refuse instrumental purpose, attending instead to the states in which objects break, blossom, or fade. Her practice is rooted in metamorphosis and pneuma—the breath-like force that animates matter. In her canvases, incompleteness is generative: the petal that unfurls, the flower that withers, the fragment that lingers.
Sanghyuk Kim directs this enquiry towards the human figure. His works dissect the body and its representations, exposing fragility and distortion as fundamental rather than defective. By stripping away surface ideals of form, Kim locates essence not in harmony but in rupture and vulnerability.
Together, the artists position incompleteness as fertile ground rather than lack. What Remains suggests that only by dismantling the illusion of perfection can we arrive at a deeper and more plural understanding of existence. What remains runs from 5 September to 2 October 2025 at Enseoul, with an opening reception on 5 September.
