GALLERY PLANET holds Dialogue, a duo exhibition of artists Hyunsoon Chang and Seoyoon Kim from February fifth to twelfth as a part of Project Songil. Project Songil is a spinoff exhibition of Crafts Trent Fair, and it selects a Songil Spot gallery in order to match an artist who participates in the fair with a gallery with the spirit of delivering the warmth of craftswork that starts with Songil, which means touch in Korean. Thus, Gallery Planet introduces Seoyoon Kim, who focuses on metal crafts while experimenting with new materials, and Hyunsoon Chang, who presents pottery works with concentration on tea pots.

Seoyoon Kim, who specializes in metal crafts starts off with tea pot, which has to be practical as well as aesthetic, and moves on to bowl, tray and other table wears. In the case of tea pots, Kim creates diverse shapes by highlighting the base, which includes the legs of the pot that are necessary for stability, and the handle, which is crucial to pouring water. At the same time, Kim shows a profound understanding of weight, structure and the tension between materials. Kim’s capacity extends to the selection of proper materials and optimal ways to modify the materials, such as creating a dish with a depth of 1mm by hammering brass plate or using tension of a pre-made 0.5mm brass plate to roll and fold the plate into a dish. She doesn’t restrict herself to simply using metals, but includes other materials like wood in her work to complement metal, or even works with non-metal materials only so that she can create the shapes she views as optimal.

Meanwhile, Hyunsoon Chang, who presents pottery works, creates variations to dishware that are easy to access in daily life in order to find new functions as well as new structural values. In particular, Chang creates multiple openings and irregularities in the direction of the handle and the lid on his tea pot in order to express unique shape that breaks the typical shape and perspective. Chang, aside from his experiments on function and form, applies elements of fine art, such as point, line and plane, on his pottery and plays with ways of display to evoke interest from the audience.

Chang and Kim, though they work in two different fields of metal and pottery, are both youthful craftspeople who has passion for experimenting with shape, structure and method. Gallery Planet is looking forward to the harmony created by its exhibition space and the unique works of the duo to ultimately elicit the visual dialogue between two works.