KANG Cheolgyu, Discarded Host

ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL is pleased to present KANG Cheolgyu (b. 1990)’s solo exhibition Discarded Host, on view from May 1 (Fri) to Jun 20 (Sat), 2026. KANG Cheolgyu has continuously developed a practice that transforms reality into a fictional pictorial world, beginning from psychological sensations arising from personal experience and the inner self. Rather than directly representing events, he focuses on the moment when emotion and memory take shape as images, constructing psychological scenes on the pictorial surface where anxiety, tension, and unfamiliar sensations linger. This practice unfolds through confronting the self by projecting it onto figures and narratives situated within an external fictional world, accumulating the processes of inner transformation as a painterly narrative.