DuRi Baek 백두리
Artist
Artist
DuRi Baek explores the coexistence of opposing elements such as life and death, damage and recovery, longing and helplessness, light and darkness. She expresses these themes through images of plants, particularly the interplay between light and shadow.
Her interest in these ideas began when she observed a monstera plant whose leaves had naturally split or formed holes, allowing light to reach even the lower parts of the plant. This led her to reflect on how plants grow, adapt, and bear the marks of their survival. She recognized that humans and plants fundamentally live in similar ways: their lives are shaped by light and the spaces where that light reaches, both light and shadow.
In her work, yellow symbolizes light, while green represents shadow. Using only these two colors, she fills the canvas with narratives about human life. In her view, shadow is not merely darkness but a trace of where light has been, a visible proof of light’s presence. She sees the movement of plants twisting their bodies, stretching branches, and growing even through damage as mirroring the human condition. The shadows that appear in her paintings are not just dark areas, but marks left by the will to survive and evidence of existence. This is why her paintings are calm yet firm, simple yet resonant.
Through painting, she also came to understand something that once caused her confusion: the boundaries between opposites. She realized that moments when two opposing elements meet are not rare exceptions but natural and ever-present phenomena. Her work seeks to depict this alignment, circulation, and balance between the dual aspects of life.
Based in Seoul, South Korea
B. 1984
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 <만끽 滿喫(Bask In)> CDA, Seoul, Korea
2023 <천이 遷移(Cheon-yi)> CDA, Seoul, Korea
2022 MARCHH, Seoul, Korea
2020 Gear 3, Seoul, Korea
2018 Gallery MEME, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITION (Selected)
2025 <공존 共存(COEXIST)> OVERGROUND, Fukuoka, Japan
2024 Noblesse Collection, Seoul, Korea
2024 CDA, Seoul, Korea
2023 <#Homecoming> Doing Art, Seoul, Korea
2023 PBG, Seoul, Korea
2023 Everyart, Seoul, Korea
2023 Bridge Mogura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2022 <#CDAPOTLUCK> CDA, Seoul, Korea
2022 The Untitled Void, Seoul, Korea
2021 Mihakgwan, Seoul, Korea.
2021 ArtBelt SOJE-Yanggaenggeang, Korea
2016 Gallery Sai, Seoul, Korea
2016 Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
2015 The Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Palais de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2013 Palais de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
ART FAIR
2025 Jakarta, Indonesia
2024 Bangkok, Thailand
2024 Seoul, South Korea
2024 Busan, South Korea
2023 Seoul, South Korea
EDUCATION
Hongik University - Visual Communication Design
1件の作品を公開しました
11 months ago
Artist
In this 'Jari' series, one can observe the expansive presence of light and shadow that settle over the tree's branches, trunk, roots, and the surrounding ground. The tree's process of chasing light is shown through how it accepts the conditions of its environment tilting or twisting its trunk, pushing its roots outward, and casting shadows in response. Through these forms, she traces the tree's way of adapting itself to seek and receive light.
1件の作品を公開しました
11 months ago
Artist
‘Toward' Series highlights both the shape of light and shadow falling on the branches, and the active, dynamic nature of the branches themselves. The direction in which the branches extend to receive more light conveys a strong, deliberate will to live.
1件の作品を公開しました
11 months ago
Artist
‘Toward' Series highlights both the shape of light and shadow falling on the branches, and the active, dynamic nature of the branches themselves. The direction in which the branches extend to receive more light conveys a strong, deliberate will to live.
