SILENT RESONANCE
Seven artists, seven singular perspectives, the same silent breath.
Until June 15, 2025
Hoon Moreau | Hyunjoo Choi | Hyunjoo Hong | Hong Ilhwa | Inhyuck Park | Woojung Park | Moon Chang Dawn
Through sculptures, furniture and murals, these artists explore the intimate relationship between space, matter and perception. Their creations invite a sensitive dialogue with time and silence, where the simplicity of the forms opens up to an emotional and poetic depth. In this balance between Korean tradition and contemporary expression, each work offers a meditative experience: that of an inner resonance, discreet but lasting.
The exhibition “Silent Resonance” was born from a desire to explore what art can convey without noise, without spectacular effect, but with an inner strength that imposes itself on those who know how to stop and observe. The works of Hoon Moreau, Hyunjoo Choi, Hyunjoo Hong, Hong Ilhwa, Inhyuck Park, Moon Chang Dawn and Woojung Park have in common a sensitivity that goes beyond the material, a subtle approach to gesture and gaze, where each detail, each texture, each empty space carries a deep meaning. Through this meeting of Korean artists, it is not a question of enclosing a cultural identity in forms or techniques, but of showing an attitude towards the world: an extreme attention to the passing of time, to the fragility of the moment, to the balance of forces, to the beauty of impermanent things. “Silent Resonance” is an invitation to suspend judgment, to slow down our gaze and to let ourselves be crossed by the discreet echo that each work brings to life. An encounter between the visible and the invisible, between the space of the gallery and the intimate space of perception.
At the heart of contemporary Korean creation remains a singular relationship to silence, space and time, which has its origin in an aesthetic thought deeply rooted in the culture of emptiness and the ephemeral. This group exhibition highlights a common approach, where art does not seek so much to represent as to suggest. Silence is not an absence, but a breath, a subtle vibration, a latent presence. It evokes the Korean concept of “Sunyeo”, a form of inner appeasement where contemplation allows one to perceive beauty beyond appearances. The 7 artists gathered here cultivate a delicate tension between nature and abstraction, tradition and modernity, matter and emptiness. Their works reflect a sensitivity specific to Korean culture, inherited from Confucianism, Zen Buddhism and a relationship with nature where man is invited to fade away in front of the essential simplicity of things. “Silent Resonance” thus questions the Western gaze often caught up in the spectacular, by offering a more meditative, slower experience, where the work is a breathing space as much as a plastic object.
An exhibition proposed by Antoine Vignault among an exclusive selection of furniture by contemporary artists and pieces of design from the twentieth century selected by Emmanuelle Vidal.
From May 15 to June 15, 2025, 2 PLACE MONTOULIEU, TOULOUSE – FRANCE
Wednesday to Saturday from 14.00 to 19.00 h or by appointment
