Kayoung Choi

Period: 2026/05/08 ~ 2026/08/04

Nation: South Korea

Genre: Research based painting, video, installation and performance

Kayoung Choi’s work brings old records and the stories of others—often regarded as distant from our present—into the realm of contemporary perception. She pays attention to the gaze and attitude through which one looks at “people one cannot meet, times one has never lived through, and places one cannot visit” from the position of “here and now.” Driven by curiosity about absence and distance, she undertakes physical movement and on-site research, reconstructing the encounters and discoveries she makes along the way, together with collected objects and records, into paintings, videos, installations, performances, and research archives.

Through speculative research, Choi moves between elements often understood as oppositional—such as past and present, reality and ideal—and transforms the wandering, imagination, and possibilities of interpretation that emerge in those intervals into artistic practice. Through her work, she reconsiders the past and the future from the perspective of the present and imagines obscured narratives. Rather than seeking quick conclusions, she forms oblique hypotheses, repeating acts of tracing, failure, and accidental discovery as she continues toward further movement and the next work.