Genevieve Chua

Duration: June 12 – July 16, 2016

Opening: Saturday June 11, 2016

Venue: 15 Jongno 22-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

Opening hours: Monday to Saturday between 11am and 5pm. (Closed on Sundays, but visitors may view the artworks through the window of the Project 7 1/2 space.)

Supported by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

Project 7 1/2 is pleased to present the third exhibition of 7 1/2: Cryptographic Imagination in 2016 by artist Genevieve Chua and her work Vestigials and Halves.

Vestigials and Halves presents ligatures in typography and modulation in painting. The artist wishes to stage a series of possibilities where a painting cannot be determined as a singular or plural entity, either in language or in form, and where in some point in the future, this system of logic must break down.

Working primarily through abstraction, Genevieve Chua pursues an unfurling narrative that is informed by natural history and linguistics. While contested notions of nature and wilderness persist across her work, the form taken by her exhibitions – whether installations, images or objects – is mediated through these processes.

The works’ formal qualities is a development in the artist’s interests in making spatial possibilities with paintings as a unit of one or many, as seen in the earlier Mnemonic and Cicadas series.

Genevieve Chua is a Singaporean multi-disciplinary artist who investigates the psychology of fear in her work. Chua’s new series are stunning photographic etchings of botanicals on paper with sheer, fluid colours on black and white photography. Chua’s experimental approach with printmaking render a different character to these monochromatic still life prints, composing a haunting beauty that serves as a surface for our imaginations.