Art Space Hohwa hosts a group exhibition titled <Inside Out>, featuring four female artists from South Korea: An So-hyun, Yi Seula, Lee Do-dam, and Ota. The title of the exhibition, “Inside Out,” literally means “to reverse the inner and outer surfaces.” Recently, during the pandemic, there has been a frequent expression of the disruption of physical interpersonal relationships and the difficulty of communication. However, paradoxically, due to these societal changes, there has been a strong tendency on online platforms and social media to present and communicate another self-image that one desires to show to others, which is carefully crafted. In this exhibition, by paying attention to such societal trends, we aim to provide an opportunity to reflect on oneself by flipping the inner and outer aspects through various representations of “self” depicted in different ways.

Yi Seula confronts the lives of modern urban dwellers intertwined with the landscapes of the city, visualizing their underlying aspects through her paintings. The varied and colorful depictions of people going about their lives and the densely packed square windows of the building forest symbolically reveal the rules and frameworks of life hidden within the city. Through her unique visual language, she captures the ordinary people and the emergence of vague thoughts and intimate reasons in the realms of daily life both inside and outside the windows, unfolding her own perspective.