〈Cure/Curse〉 Solo Exhibition by Minjung See The city is not only a physical structure but also a psychological condition that organizes the human experience. Minjung See is an artist who delves into this condition, examining the emotional sediment shaped by urban systems and environments. Her practice navigates the constructed boundaries between artificiality and nature, consumption and loss, often through the use of materials such as plastic, vinyl, and green threads—elements that serve as metaphors for “simulated nature” and mechanisms of self-contained isolation. The solo exhibition 〈Cure/Curse〉 offers a critical reflection on this duality: an urban context that mimics healing but often reproduces a deeper, more insidious affliction. It explores the paradox of contemporary life, where the pursuit of recovery often takes the form of another illusion. This exhibition brings together See’s major installation and video works alongside her recent series of paintings, “Representations After Light,” which mark a conceptual and formal shift in her oeuvre. “Representations After Light” focuses on what remains once the dazzling surface of the city fades—residual impressions, fractured emotions, and fragmented perceptions. Layered acrylic compositions trace the contours of memory and personal topography, dissecting and reconstructing the act of representation itself. In these works, the materiality of the city is not depicted but rather abstracted, giving way to introspective and symbolic landscapes that echo the critical stance of her earlier Plastic Series, yet through a more distilled and contemplative visual language. Across diverse media—installation, painting, photography, video, and performative elements—Minjung See consistently interrogates the act of seeing and the conditions of visibility. Her works reflect the disposability and ephemerality of images in urban life, while revealing the psychological consequences of inhabiting such a visual economy. Ultimately, her practice raises ontological questions about what it means to exist within a mediated, artificial world: What do we perceive as “natural”? And is that perception authentic or yet another illusion? 〈Cure/Curse〉 is both a response and a provocation. It offers no facile consolation, but rather exposes the fissures beneath the urban imaginary. See reconfigures the language of the city to reveal a cartography of absence and dislocation—less an escape from wounds than an insistence on their recognition. Her works do not simulate healing; instead, they critique the very notion of healing as a packaged aesthetic or commodified desire. This exhibition marks a shift beyond the plastic gaze of the urban into the realm of post-light perception. Minjung See invites us to look not merely at, but through the frameworks of representation that confine our understanding. In doing so, she reclaims the visual field as a space for critical reflection, and gestures toward a more embodied and unresolved way of seeing—one rooted not in resolution, but in questioning.