In the Midst of Life
Jungkee Son, an artist on the ascent, presents In the Midst of Life. BOL Gallery is proud to present this solo exhibition set to open on 9 May 2025 featuring Son’s work in a distinctive monochromatic exploration of solitude, impermanence, and the uncertain contours of existence. This collection of canvases invites audiences into a contemplative space where knowledge does not bring clarity but instead dissolves into the vast, shifting landscape of the unknown.
Son explores the theme of solitude as not merely the absence of others but a vast interior landscape, a liminal space where the weight of a self is confronted. The burdens of memory, the longing to hold onto the past, the restless search for meaning all thread through his work with a quiet yet persistent urgency. His compositions exist on the threshold between presence and absence, between motion and stillness, mirroring the precarious nature of life itself.
This introspective weight finds its most poignant expression in his monochromatic paintings. Stripped of superfluous detail, his works reside in the limbo between light and shadow, where stark contrasts and subtle gradations of tone conjure an atmosphere of quiet contemplation. The absence of colour does not denote emptiness, but rather an invitation—to see beyond the obvious, to embrace uncertainty, to recognise that meaning is not always handed to us in vivid hues but often lingers in the in-between spaces. Each stroke, each shift in tone, mirrors the artist’s meditation on impermanence, on the imperceptible yet undeniable passage of time.
A recurring motif in his art and musings is the winter forest—a realm of profound silence, stripped of the clamor of summer’s vitality. Here, emptiness does not signify lack but possibility; stillness is not stagnation but a clearing of space for something new to emerge. Like a pristine white canvas awaiting its first stroke, the winter forest becomes a sanctuary for reflection, where thought and time drift freely, unburdened by expectation.
Son does not impose meaning upon the viewer; instead, he extends an invitation—to step into the quiet, to walk the delicate edge between knowing and unknowing, to surrender to the uncertain and the transient. His work does not seek resolution, for in life, there is none. Rather, it embraces the enigmatic, leaving us to discover, in the silent depths of our own solitude, the ineffable beauty that has been there all along.
Jungkee Son, an artist on the ascent, presents In the Midst of Life. BOL Gallery is proud to present this solo exhibition set to open on 9 May 2025 featuring Son’s work in a distinctive monochromatic exploration of solitude, impermanence, and the uncertain contours of existence. This collection of canvases invites audiences into a contemplative space where knowledge does not bring clarity but instead dissolves into the vast, shifting landscape of the unknown.
Son explores the theme of solitude as not merely the absence of others but a vast interior landscape, a liminal space where the weight of a self is confronted. The burdens of memory, the longing to hold onto the past, the restless search for meaning all thread through his work with a quiet yet persistent urgency. His compositions exist on the threshold between presence and absence, between motion and stillness, mirroring the precarious nature of life itself.
This introspective weight finds its most poignant expression in his monochromatic paintings. Stripped of superfluous detail, his works reside in the limbo between light and shadow, where stark contrasts and subtle gradations of tone conjure an atmosphere of quiet contemplation. The absence of colour does not denote emptiness, but rather an invitation—to see beyond the obvious, to embrace uncertainty, to recognise that meaning is not always handed to us in vivid hues but often lingers in the in-between spaces. Each stroke, each shift in tone, mirrors the artist’s meditation on impermanence, on the imperceptible yet undeniable passage of time.
A recurring motif in his art and musings is the winter forest—a realm of profound silence, stripped of the clamor of summer’s vitality. Here, emptiness does not signify lack but possibility; stillness is not stagnation but a clearing of space for something new to emerge. Like a pristine white canvas awaiting its first stroke, the winter forest becomes a sanctuary for reflection, where thought and time drift freely, unburdened by expectation.
Son does not impose meaning upon the viewer; instead, he extends an invitation—to step into the quiet, to walk the delicate edge between knowing and unknowing, to surrender to the uncertain and the transient. His work does not seek resolution, for in life, there is none. Rather, it embraces the enigmatic, leaving us to discover, in the silent depths of our own solitude, the ineffable beauty that has been there all along.
