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H-flux Gallery is delighted to present ‘Haeyoon’s Alibi’, a solo exhibition by Eunhyung Kim, open from May 30 to June 27. Bridging the gaps between diverse mediums and genres—from drawing, animation, and traditional Eastern painting to fiber art and murals—artist Eunhyung Kim has built a highly distinctive artistic world. In this exhibition, Kim introduces fifteen new works, centered around his murals, that comprise a singular, cohesive chapter in his artistic journey. The images presented in this exhibition are arranged according to four principal themes: conjuration, alchemy, healing, and reincarnation. Written upon sheets of paper crumpled to evoke the appearance of a human brain are dense accumulations of thoughts, imagination, memory, and sensation. Everything intersects to create an open-ended narrative. The artist’s own words are intimately connected to the imagery, with each medium complementing the others to capture a full range of sensory and conceptual experiences. For a long time, the artist has developed an individual style that combines text and images. His early works featured surrealist imagery closely aligned with automatism, later shifting toward translating scenes from music and the performing arts onto canvas. More recently, Kim has established a cyclical methodology that explores the space between the linguistics and the visual arts, converting self-written poems and short texts into imagery. In this manner, text creates the need for images, and images demand new text. Sensation that defies explanation remains as imagery, while the ideas that images fail to communicate are taken up by language. Within these works, drawing and writing are similar in terms of scale and density, sharing the same space like scribbleings or graffiti on a tabletop. The format is reminiscent of pages from a small book or a graphic novel. For the artist, the focus lies not in finalizing or perfecting an image, but in the act of recording the exact moment a thought or sensation occurs. These drawings share a structural affinity with writing, yet function as a more immediate visual language. The process of accumulating images on crumpled paper emphasizes meticulous labor of an artisan. With his attention to detail and fixation on even the smallest of surfaces, the artist presents the self ‘s true craftsmanship. Through this process of inscribing countless images onto a single, seemingly insignificant sheet of paper, the artwork acquires distinctiveness and an alchemical value. In contrast, the large-scale works expand across a large space like murals, enveloping the viewer. They evoke the magnitude of a stage, or perhaps a huge bookshelf. In this body of work, conjuration originates from meditation, prayer, and the fleeting afterimages of dreams seen in the moments after walking. Alchemy is found in the transformation of the mundane into something extraordinary. The very act of drawing itself promotes healing. The artist vents complex thoughts and emotions onto paper or gallery walls: images of scissors represent the urge to remove memories that should be forgotten, and adding wings to images of people expresses their desire to break free from the confines of the artwork. Ultimately, the text and images in this exhibition take part in a process of reincarnation. What has previously vanished returns in an altered form; lost memories and emotions mutate and emerge once more into the consciousness. This structural cyclicality permeates every piece, ensuring that image and language continuously blend together in order to renew.