A Hundred Suns
20 August to 20 September 2025
Gallery Baton is pleased to present A Hundred Suns, a solo exhibition by Jimok Choi (b. 1981), at its exhibition space in Seoul’s Hannam area from 20 August to 20 September 2025. Taking place at a moment when the forms and concepts of Choi’s “afterimage” series have reached new levels of maturity through years of immersion, the exhibition also includes an audience-participatory performance (Your retina is my canvas), providing an opportunity for an in-depth exploration of the “perceptual painting” that the artist has steadily pursued.
A first step in understanding Jimok Choi’s afterimage series can be found in understanding the words quoted by Goethe in his Theory of Colours (Zur Farbenlehre, 1810): “If the eye were not sunny, how could we perceive light? If God's own strength lived not in us, how could we delight in Divine things?” Goethe was remarking on the limitations of Newton’s optics—which subordinated color to the physical properties of light—and arguing that the essence of color lay in the experience and perceptions of the physical organ exposed to light. A key aspect of the artist’s color composition and aesthetic structures rests in the concept of Nachbilder: complementary afterimages (red-green, blue-yellow) formed by the retina immediately after long exposure to a particular light source. (More Information)
