KIWA London is pleased to present Imaquark as Ahn Doojin situates his practice in response to the paradox of the 2000s art world: an era that proclaimed ‘everything is possible’, yet simultaneously revealed the void in which ‘nothing seems possible anymore’. From this contradiction, he formulated the notion of Imaquark — a neologism combining ‘image’(Ima-) and ‘quark’, the fundamental particle of physics.
Imaquark thus marks a pivotal step in Ahn’s exploration of painting’s potential as a field of generative autonomy.
The exhibition will display fifteen of the artist’s most exclusive and available artworks in this series.