The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. (KCCDC) proudly presents Connecting Lines, a new exhibition of works by Korean artists Park Hyewon and Kim So Jeong that meditate on life’s diverse connections and unseen structures through the deceptively simple—yet profoundly fundamental and expressive—concept of the line. 

Both Park and Kim will introduce their works in person at the opening reception on Tuesday, April 21, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. (RSVP required).

The artists’ works encompass themes of symmetry, repetition, record keeping, connection, and formal expansion, utilizing pen and thread as key media across both physical and visual spaces. Through their practice, each reveals cyclical processes of life within material environments while also reconstructing reality’s seemingly ordinary moments. In doing so, they bring into view unseen relationships and the connective tissues of human life.

For Park and Kim, the line functions not merely as a means of delineation, but as a fundamental unit that reveals, generates, and extends connections.

The artists’ works also speak to line concepts explored by French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). Deleuze regarded human beings and society not as fixed structures, but as complex relationships formed through the intersection and entanglement of different lines. In this sense, artistic structures formed from multiple lines can be interpreted as the very framework for one’s life.

Connecting Lines remains on view April 21 through June 5, 2026 at the KCCDC and launches with a public opening reception on Tuesday, April 21, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. (RSVP required). The opening event will include an introduction to the exhibition and a session in which both Park and Kim will discuss their works in person.

Connecting Lines: Works by Park Hyewon and Kim So Jeong 

Exhibition Dates: April 21 – June 5, 2026

Opening Reception with the Artists: Tuesday, April 21, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. 

Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. 

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About the Artists and Exhibition

Park Hyewon explores the physical spaces in which human existence unfolds, using the house and notion of home as a central motifs. She employs red thread as her primary material, through which she visualizes life’s invisible processes and various “homes,” including in relationships, birth, and death. By winding, suspending, knotting, and weaving thread, she constructs spatial environments that express both visual and bodily experiences.

Park Hyewon uses thread as her primary sculptural language, weaving together time and relationships within her work. She uses her background in traditional Korean painting to expand the spatial concepts and perspectives of classical landscape painting into contemporary installation practices. Park received her BFA in Korean Painting from Kyung Hee University and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design in the United Kingdom. Park has held solo exhibitions in Korea, the UK, the United States, and Taiwan, and has participated in numerous international projects, curated exhibitions, and group shows. For more, visit https://www.instagram.com/hyewonrosapark.

Kim So Jeong draws on the traditional East Asian technique of baekmyo (ink line drawing) as she depicts aspects of everyday life with stark insight. The scenes she captures are often those overlooked or avoided, but in which dissonance lurks within beneath an orderly or perfect appearance. By re-presenting these within red-lined forms, she records and reframes various moments and incidents from contemporary life from a new and distinct vantage point.

Kim appropriates traditional presentation means such as lines, scrolls, and folding screens, as well as formalized historical Korean documentary paintings that illustrated royal ceremonies, protocols, and processions, to depict tense scenes of everyday life, including public protests. Kim hopes that the interpretive possibilities opened up by removing color and text will extend from the scenes she witnessed to the viewer. Kim has held solo exhibitions at venues including Boan1942 and OCI Museum, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions at spaces such as Hanwon Museum and Space Can. She received her BFA (2014) and MFA (2017) in Oriental Painting from Ewha Womans University College of Art and Design. For more, visit https://sojeong-kim.com.

Connecting Lines also features a third gallery, in addition to Park and Kim’s individual spaces, dedicated to archival documentation of the artists’ practices. Interviews, exhibition catalogs, and related materials invite visitors into a deeper understanding of the artists’ works and their evolution over time, connecting their own past, present, and future.

Collectively the exhibition synthesizes the artists’ reflections on human existence—from relationships between life and death to pivotal moments whose significance is only revealed in retrospect. Connecting Lines offers an opportunity to reconsider the layered meanings of our own lives that intersect and unfold through myriad lines, both visible and invisible.

The House of One Peng 

Park Hyewon 

Red threads on PC pipe, installation view

Sweet Home 

Park Hyewon

Embroidery on linen, 7.5cm, 2024

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Kim So Jeong

Color on paper, 76x60 cm, 2025

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Kim So Jeong

Color on paper, 76x60 cm, 2025