As its final exhibition of 2021, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art(hereafter, GMoMA) presents   《Vast and Slow: Hyewon Kwon, Euntae Park, Eunji Cho》. This exhibition highlights the respective art world of the three established artists based in Gyeonggi province. GMoMA’s love and earnest support for artists combined with GyeongGi Cultural Foundation’s focus on artists-invitation for competition is an attempt to take a more meaningful step forward with this exhibition which doubles as the showcase for the three artists’ new works.

《Vast and Slow》pays tribute to artistic achievements and itineraries as active artists during long periods of time shown consistently by these 3 participating artists. The exhibition title was inspired by a piece found in science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin’s book <The Wind's Twelve Quarters>, titled ‘Vaster than Empires and More Slow.’ As Le Guin had written about what goes on inside our minds instead of actions or adventures, this exhibition attempts to present the art worlds of the artists who have explored the unexplored forest. The viewer is invited to partake of unique experience and imagination while viewing their new works.

 Hyewon Kwon, Euntae Park, and Eunji Cho have created their new works while exploring and pondering on the themes of ‘human and non-human,’ ‘material and immaterial,’ ‘human and labor,’ the ‘in-between’ amid such various relations.《Vast and Slow》hopes to provide a platform sharing alternative and radical views on the conversation between man and labor, man and animal, language and non-language, instead of holding anthropocentric values. Furthermore, it aims to guide us to imagine a world we cannot currently visualize through the aid of anthropological lens, using the ‘methodology of observing the other by absorbing oneself deep into the inner mind of the other.’ Thus, we could eventually think about the prejudice and limit inherent in such a world.

《Vast and Slow》aspires to invite the viewers to understand that ‘to live along with problems is to learn how to truly exist in the present’ by experiencing the realm of shock and conflict when we confront for the first time something completely different, such as different cultural elements – place, time, and material.