Hong Seung-Hye has garnered a unique
position in the Seoul art scene with her bravado in defying
conventional borders. She sees no restraints in crisscrossing the border
between the abstract and the figurative, the plane and the
three-dimensional. Nor does she shy away from employing public spaces
just as freely as she experiments inside a white cube.


This first
monograph on Hong traces the trajectory of her prolific oeuvre. It
features four essays written by distinguished Korean critics, curators
and educators who have closely witnessed and worked alongside Hong
throughout the past two decades. Originally written in context with solo
exhibitions, each of which marking a milestone in her career, they
offer individual starting points to delve into and read Hong's art.
Ranging from her earliest paper collages to the most recent videos
reinterpreting Snoopy from iconic comic strip The Peanuts, this book illustrated with some 200 colour plates provides a comprehensive survey of Hong's versatility.