Wonderland

Atsuko Ishii

Born in Osaka, Japan. She has lived and worked in Paris since 1995.
She collaborated with Isabel Marant, Le Bon Marche, J’ai lu and Rock en Seine. She uses copper plates in her own colours on the Parisian etching press in both small and large formats.Her skilled prints have been exhibited internationally including France, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sweden, Mexico and Belgium.
In this exhibition, we sell limited number of her latest book Personal Reality Show (2024) as well as her beautiful limited print works.

Kim Seoul

Born in Daegu, South Korea. She received her BFA from Hong-ik University in Seoul, and her MFA and PhD from Tama Art University in Tokyo. She studied printmaking and most often creates colour etchings with hand-coloring.
Kim opens cardboard boxes and lays them flat; the folds and tape marks become the main lines. Opening the box is a way to open stored memories. In the centre, she draws everyday things—a watermelon, a vase, a shirt, a wash basin—quietly and precisely. The white space around the object provides air and distance. The result is simple to read and carries clear weight.

Jang Sooji

Born in Seoul, lives and works in South Korea.
She paints and draws many distinctive figure images with unique personal and social themes.
She explains that her portrait represent the act of identifying people, who are anxious and lonely. At the same time it reminds hope to connect with the innocence and purity from childhood, which is believed to be intrinsic to every person.
Jang paints in thin layers on jangji so that colour sits within the paper and the image reads gentle and steady. The works place beauty and a small tension in the same frame and guide that tension towards calm. Very fine lines—notably in the hair—catch light and give a quiet sense of life. Flowers and small patterned motifs appear as signs of care, not as display.

Showing the works of Kim Seoul and Jang Sooji are collaborated with GALLERY JIB.