2025 Special Exhibition And, One Day

An Artistic Voyage Along the Grain of Life

In the quiet of a long summer, the Gwangju Museum of Art presents something unexpected— a show that doesn't rush to impress, but lingers instead. 2025 Special Exhibition And, One Day asks not for your attention, but your pause. It begins with a deceptively simple question:

“Where did your day pause—and where did it begin again?”

Here, “and” is not just a conjunction. It’s a symbol of continuity—a life still unfolding, a gentle insistence that each moment holds the potential to begin again.

Through the eyes of four contemporary Korean artists—Kim Sunwoo, Moon Hyeongtae, Jung Seungwon, and Jeong Seongjoon—this exhibition offers a layered meditation on daily life, memory, relationships, and coexistence.

It spans roughly 50 works, including paintings and installations, and guides us from the depths of personal reflection to the shared questions of our time.

Exhibition Details

Title: 2025 Special Exhibition And, One Day

Venue: Gwangju Museum of Art (Main Building, Galleries 3 & 4)

Dates: July 29 – November 23, 2025

Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Closed Mondays)

Admission: Free

Artists: Kim Sunwoo, Moon Hyeongtae, Jung Seungwon, Jeong Seongjoon

On View: Approx. 50 works (Paintings & Installations)

Four Artists, Four Ways to See a Day

Kim Sunwoo

The Dodo’s Journey to the Other Shore

Kim’s works feature a peculiar figure: the dodo—long thought extinct, now reimagined as a symbol of untapped potential. This grounded bird is no longer a relic of the past, but a voyager in search of meaning. Riding a symbolic “boat of thought,” it charts a course toward the other shore—not a distant utopia, but a space of renewed perception and inner discovery.

Jung Seungwon

Reconstructing Memory Through the Everyday

Jung turns the fleeting details of daily life—sunlit rooms, quiet walks, the warmth of summer—into enduring fragments of memory. His repeated silkscreen imagery captures not just what we remember, but how we remember: with distortion, emotion, and rhythm. Each work offers a delicate invitation to see our own pasts reflected, not as fact, but as feeling.

Moon Hyeongtae

Translating Emotion into Form

Moon gives structure to emotion, assigning numbers to states of being. His work transforms relationships into symbolic visual language—blending color, memory, and personal myth. Each canvas becomes a kind of emotional map, tender and precise, where self and other gently collide.

Jeong Seongjoon

Urban Animals and Imagined Utopias

In Jeong’s world, animals inherit the city. They sweep the streets, care for each other, and carry on with warmth and wit. Behind this whimsical imagery lies a deeper message about ecological care, coexistence, and resilience. His paintings—soft in tone but sharp in insight—quietly remind us that a better world begins with small gestures.

What Does And, One Day Ask of Us?

“How will your next scene be written?”

Each piece in this exhibition is a fragment of time, a folded page in the story of a life. Through repetition and layering, the works reveal how ordinary moments—when seen closely—become profound.

And, One Day suggests that our lives are not linear, but cumulative. That memory is not fixed, but fluid. That every and carries the possibility of again. It invites us to reflect not only on how we live—but how we continue.

Editor A’s Note

This is not just an exhibition to be seen. It is one to be felt, absorbed, and returned to.

And, One Day gently reconnects the scattered pieces of our everyday, and in doing so, gives us the space to imagine what comes next.

If your day needs a pause— a breath, a shift, a soft return— then this exhibition might just be your place to begin again.

— Editor A