Hyun-Sook Song (b. 1952, Damyang) presents a new series of paintings, One brushstroke, the horizon of the world, at Zeno X Gallery.
Song has been working since the 1980s on a body of work in which she reflects on a life between two cultures. She travelled from South Korea to West Germany as a guest worker in 1972. During this period, she kept notes and wrote letters home, developing a visual language of her own: she used the expressive nature of calligraphy to express her experience of Western modernity and her social isolation. This laid the foundations for a practice in which Song would link the traditions of East Asian painting and European modernism.