Crossing

Choi So-Young manipulates recycled denim to give perspectival texture and form to create intricate cityscape. Multi-textured Crossing (Lot 168) featured here, is a lively homage to her hometown in Busan, Korea. The work well demonstrates Choi's fascinating use of different coloured denim and play of texture. Amassed precisely in combining the diverse components of material, she skillfully composes them to bring memories of her hometown to life. In Crossing, Choi's tuneful control of the composition and surprisingly eloquent colouring of the sky with fluffy white clouds unwinds the rigid characteristic of denim to a softer, expressive and metaphoric layer. In sync with the confined structure of the building walls in the middle of the work, Choi skillfully locks the border of the picture from expanding to a larger vista, distinctively cornering the audience's vision into a narrowed distance of the town. In both works, the city's charm is accentuated by the graceful subtleties of blue summoning a dream like atmosphere, dazing the audience's thoughts to paint scenarios to bond a personal dialogue to the city. Choi exquisitely liberates the audience out of the hectic noise of the city into a hushed distance to overlook the metropolis, tranquilly meditating the audience to build a fondness to the city, in which the utilization of denim furthers the appeal as universally recognized comfortable attire. Her clever and quirky use of this non-traditional medium establishes her innovative aesthetic ability to create beyond the ordinary.