Juxtapoz Magazine - Danym Kwon's "Dear Moments"
Briefly

Dear Moments is a solo exhibition by Danym Kwon that features a body of work focusing on home, motherhood, and migration. After returning to Seoul from California, Kwon reflects on how the Bay Area shaped her identity. The centerpiece is a triptych illustrating folded laundry, symbolizing memories of domestic life. The exhibition includes diptychs that blend Korean tradition with personal narrative and a series of wooden sculptures representing captured moments. Kwon's art offers insight into appreciating life's fleeting instances while inviting viewers to reflect on their own experiences of grace in the everyday.
Kwon offers a tender and introspective body of work shaped by the emotional landscapes of home, motherhood and migration, exploring moments that fill everyday life.
The focal point of the exhibition is a large-scale triptych depicting a towering stack of folded laundry, intricately illustrated with scenes of domestic life.
Kwon's paintings and sculptures evoke life's sense of impermanence and invite viewers to linger, reflect, and rediscover grace in the everyday.
Danym Kwon states, 'But wherever we were together became a home. These works are my way of holding onto that - of cherishing the moments that pass too quickly.'
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