Jun Haeng Lee
Green to Blue: this is just to say departs from the assumption that colour functions as universal, stable information. The exhibition is grounded in a non-essentialist understanding of colour: there is no universal “Green” or “Blue”, no fixed essence or core meaning that can be shared across bodies, cultures, or contexts. Instead, the exhibition approaches colour as an even, one that unfolds through the interaction of language, neurological processes, memory, and sensation.
At the ambiguous threshold where Green and Blue converge, colour is understood not as a fixed category but as a fluid process, interpreted differently by each viewer. On the visible spectrum, Green and Blue sit in close proximity, often dissolving into one another. What appears linguistically distinct becomes perceptually unstable. In some cultures, these colours are contained within a single term; in sensory experience, they may register as shifts in depth, atmosphere, or emotional tone. This in-between zone exposes the elasticity of perception and the layered nature of cognition. The exhibition translates these subtle discrepancies into a spatial experience, allowing colour to unfold through movement, duration, and relational viewing.
As viewers navigate the space, colour responds to individual contexts such as cultural background, emotional state, and memory, lingering between Green and Blue rather than resolving into either. Colour is not presented as a static object of contemplation, but as a mediating force that is continually reconfigured through the act of looking.
Through the artists’ subjective translations of the chromatic spectrum, Green to Blue resists singular meaning and invites active perceptual engagement. What the viewer encounters is not a definitive colour, but the fragile and provisional process through which colour becomes perceptible at all.
The moment we call trees ‘green’ and the ocean ‘blue’, we confine a world of subtle variation into simple words. In doing so, we often miss the infinite gradients that exist between these categories. The exhibition Green to Blue invites us to linger in this in-between space, where fixed names begin to falter and perception remains fluid and open-ended. The words we inherit profoundly influence how we interpret the visible world. While some cultures draw a clear boundary between green and blue, in others both coexist within a single chromatic category. Such differences reveal that colour does not exist as a purely visual fact, but is negotiated through language and the ways we learn to describe our surroundings.
Vision is equally provisional. Rather than receiving light passively, the brain filters and adjusts visual information through a process known as cognitive normalisation, drawing on prior encounters and accumulated familiarity. What we see, then, is not a direct transcription of optical input, but an interpretive process shaped by a continuous act of interpretation.
Across the exhibition, the works share a palette of green and blue, yet each artist approaches colour through their own lived experience. Colours are selected as carriers of personal memory, sensation, and association, shaped by individual histories and ways of seeing. Through these subjective choices, green and blue acquire distinct meanings, unfolding across memory, bodily awareness, environmental connection, and the passage of time. Rather than assigning fixed interpretations, Green to Blue treats colour as a connective threshold, inviting the viewer to step beyond words and linger within a perceptual space that resists closure.
Artists
Felix Cuvillier · Heather Xing · Jaine Hum · John Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh · Kai Thaís · Madeleine Marg · Mimi Xing · Sparro Chen · Trinity Ellis · Victor Scheibler
Curated by
Ie Jin Choi · Jun Haeng Lee · Lily Yiyan Hou · Zhaozhi Zhang
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Yat Sze Ashley Lo
Organised by
Jaine Hum
Curator & Writer
Seoul / London
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