The Ailing Gong Weiyuan’s Journey to the Underworld

b. 1986Choe Sooryeon paints with interest the images of the East that are reproduced in contemporarytimes. On one hand, she partly doubts about the “Oriental” things regarded as old and strangevalues in the Korean society posterior to modernization. On the other hand, she is blindly fond ofthem, and considers about them. Based on the conventional clichĕ images shared in NortheastAsia, Choe Sooryeon focuses on depicting grief, women, gap from the reality, inner Orientalism,doubt, ignorance and the absurd through her painting.