KICHE is delighted to present OK Seungcheol's 4th solo exhibition, entitled TROPHY, from August 31 to October 7. The 17 works vary from selected paintings from his new series, such as Rashomon and Irochi, to the striking gold-plated Trophy sculpture.

Whereas the notion of originality and the process of its expansion has been the dominant theme in the artist's previous exhibitions, here, he focuses more on the possibility of various interpretations and semanticization, departing from 'trophy' as the symbolic motif.

Accompanying the exhibition as well are curatorial texts by Miran Park and Hyun Chung.

“With each step up and down the exhibition space’s staircase gazes push and pull against each other. Some faces study and turn away; some observe carefully then quickly glance away. Each face questions the identity of the ambiguous archetype in our memories: Was the apparition ever real? What is the original source of fiction that is mixed with truth and has the potential to infinitely evolve? In the midst of the endlessly renewing days of reality, the boundary between the original and the replica becomes blurred every time. Meanwhile, Ok Seungcheol plants a flag on some of the images that freely float through today. It is to engrave the image of a specific moment in the form of a unique physical property here. As a brilliant emblem of the present, as a marker to avoid losing one’s direction.”
_Miran Park, Curator partial excerpt

"In any case, what he is trying to show is not the cause or effect of an event. A series of trophies that have become sprite images is, after all, diversified perspectives for three-dimensional objects and an expanded time sprung out of the three-dimensions. Therefore, the yellow, gray, greenish-blue paintings and the gold-plated head sculpture in the small green room are “new oldness” that is not affected by any viewpoint and space of the past, present, and future. In this sense, the works scattered all over the exhibition space continue the legacy of a methodology of the previous exhibition. We can observe this continued artistic contemplation of the loss of the original (Un Original), reference to an image of reduced clarity (Jpeg Supply), and recreating the design (Creating Outlines). Not only that, the new series, Trophy, distinguishes itself from the existing legacy and holds a temporary independence. Nonetheless, the artist hints to us that this group of works can create a patina of non-time-space-continuum by infinitely cross-editing, rather than staying perpetually fragmented."
_Hyun Chung partial excerpt

- Gallery kiche