Seoul-based painter Choe Vio has returned to the Page Gallery with “Time Interface,” a solo show that opened Wednesday, which attempts to turn time from an abstract idea into something viewers can actually move through, disturb and help complete.
Running through May 30 at the gallery’s west building in Seongsu-dong, eastern Seoul, the exhibition marks Choe’s first solo presentation in four years and centers on new paintings and an interactive installation built around the artist’s long-running interest in invisible signals, energy and duration.
The exhibition’s premise is both dense and strangely simple. Choe imagines time as not just a subject on the canvas, but a condition that structures how the work is made and how it is seen.
“This exhibition is about a point of contact in time — one where the past asks questions and the future answers them,” Choe said during a press conference at the Page Gallery on Thursday. “If the future could send something back, perhaps it would help us navigate the countless choices we make in the present.”
