Sun Choe is an artist of western painting who has been immersed in ‘Silence and Emptiness’ for the past 20 years.
For the artist, Silence was not a closing door to the world or turning away from others, but a process of emptying one’s mind, looking beyond the world with clear eyes, and embodying and abstracting it.
Three years ago, she set up a studio and gallery, galeriest.136, near Gangcheon Island in the Namhan River, has repeated filling and emptying on the canvas.