These works reveal the productive tension that emerges in the space between polarities—the fertile ground where artistic innovation flourishes.

Sheng Lor’s woven drawings reveal the emotional resonance hidden in repetition and order. Soojung Park, working with fiberglass tinted directly with color, creates meticulous works that investigate the space ‘between (間)’—the intervals, and meanings found in these interstices. Joel Woodard, grounded in the fundamentals of color and composition, employs improvisational lines and geometric forms to open new possibilities within painting. Yuqui Huang stitches painting and textile into terrains where structure meets rupture. See Yearn You explores the boundaries of language, identity, and role through fabric, creating rhythmic dialogues between softness and tension, chance and intention. Her work dwells within, rather than resolves, the subtle frictions of binary thought.

Yein Son revisits memory and identity through delicate impressions on hanji, while Chinning Liu encapsulates personal memories and collective history within forms that resemble specimens. Namu Choi’s witty yet unsettling drawings juxtapose daily fragments with the unconscious, while Arisa Nakabayashi transforms gesture and color into sensory traces. Ti Lee expands painting into multi-dimensional surfaces by cutting and layering canvas, while Catherine Wang maps the fluidity of place and identity through shifting landscapes.

Lee Dong-Geun transforms unfamiliar information into poetic visual forms, grounding his practice in writing and painting. His work embraces the beauty found in the non-rational moments within rational systems. Jee Hwang examines human desire and its social constructs through metaphorical gestures. Her work reveals the tension between individual psychology and collective norms, critiquing how beauty and violence intertwine in the representation of women. Abby Zhang explores painting as an evolving archive of emotional and collective memory. Through layering and erasure, she reveals how images shift between object and experience, inviting viewers into the work’s unfinished space.

The dual-space exhibition unfolding at alt projects and Green Gallery creates additional layers of dialogue, experimenting with how the reception and interpretation of works appear differently within the context of space. Through art that penetrates the spatiotemporal differences of participating artists from different generations and regions, Between Calmness and Passion explores an artistic dimension across the gaps between identities as well as media, probing interrogations through processes of calmness and passion.