Hakgojae Gallery presents SOSOSOLO
EXHIBITION, a three-person exhibition featuring GOODMORNINGTOWN (b. 1995),
SOON.EASY (b. 1990), and JOOJAEBUM (b. 1983), at Hakgojae Art Center from
August 20 to September 12, 2026. While adopting the format of a group
exhibition, the exhibition is structured to allow each artist to present their
practice independently. Three distinct solo exhibitions coexist within a single
exhibition, inviting viewers to move between different perspectives and visual
languages.
We are accustomed to conventional ways of
categorizing exhibitions. When a single artist occupies a space, we call it a
“solo exhibition”; when several artists participate, a “group exhibition.”
Group exhibitions generally bring together different artists by identifying
points of connection and weaving their individual practices into a shared theme
or narrative. In contemporary art, however, ongoing attempts have challenged
such fixed distinctions, exploring new ways of structuring exhibitions and the
relationships they produce.
This exhibition begins with these questions: “Why must they be together?” “Where do their different practices meet, and what can they say together?” In response, the works of GOODMORNINGTOWN, SOON.EASY, and JOOJAEBUM are not subsumed under a single theme. Instead, the exhibition presents three independent solo exhibitions alongside one another. Their practices are neither adjusted to explain one another nor made to complete a shared meaning; rather, each artist’s distinct world and visual language is allowed to unfold on its own terms. The possibility of relationships remains open without being prematurely defined. Here, the role of curating is not to resolve differences, but to make room for difference to remain as difference.
GOODMORNINGTOWN creates unexpected encounters
in the intervals between images, giving rise to new forms of dialogue. SOON.EASY
constructs pictorial scenes in which humor and anxiety, familiarity and
unfamiliarity coexist. JOOJAEBUM returns to the pixel, the smallest unit of the
image, tracing backward the processes through which images are formed and
perceived. As we move between the three solo exhibitions, we continually
revisit what we have encountered earlier. The shifts in perspective, chance
comparisons, and associations that arise in this process lead to unexpected
interpretations. In the act of “seeing” while moving between distinct worlds,
viewers come to discover relationships and meanings for themselves.
In SOSOSOLO EXHIBITION, existing in
plurality does not mean diminishing individuality. The three artists share the
same time and space while maintaining their own trajectories, without being
subsumed into a single framework. When placed alongside one another, their
differences come into sharper focus.
