EXHIBITION: RECURSION. WON JOON CHOI

OPENING: 11/10/2024, 18.00

Curated by Vikenti Komitski

As part of the LOOK Festival 2024 Punta Gallery is excited to present a solo show by the London-based artist Won Joon Choi, featuring large-scale paintings created during a one-month residency in Sofia. Choi’s work is blending painting, collage, stencils, and printer ink to create textured, multi-layered compositions.

His paintings engage in a search for narrative—but resist settling into one. Instead, Choi reveals a surface of reality as if seen through a microscope. Found images and materials appear and vanish, merging into abstract symbols. Some transform into signs, hinting at hidden meanings, while others fade entirely, leaving only traces. Choi treats signs as remnants of past images, like footsteps or stamps. His work turns the canvas into an archaeological site, where layers of memory, time, and history overlap. Won Joon Choi is an artist and explorer, and his creative practice is deeply connected to his experiences of traveling and observing nature. Whether in the Arctic Circle or in the Rila Mountains, Choi walks alone, driven by a desire to discover something elusive. He searches, but the object of his search remains unclear—perhaps an answer, a question, or simply a deeper understanding of the world around him. His art becomes a reflection of this ongoing process of exploration—a dialogue between the outer world and the inner landscapes of thought and perception.

Further information: https://puntagallery.com/Won-Joon-Choi