PNEUMA participates in Platform Project Art Fair in Athens

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This work develops from my ongoing Sky Literacy series, translating its imagery into a new

material and spatial condition. Onto hanji, I project and layer images derived from cedar

surfaces, allowing translucency and permeability to activate the space between layers.

Rather than functioning as a single fixed image, the work unfolds through overlap, diffusion,

and subtle shifts of light.

In the Sky Window series, I reference Changho, the traditional Korean window and door

structure that filters light and mediates interior and exterior space. Hanji operates

simultaneously as surface and filter, softening and redirecting light while maintaining

structural presence.

Within the exhibition, the works are arranged through repetition, juxtaposition, and layering.

Individual panels relate to one another through intervals, transparency, and visual rhythm,

forming a spatial configuration shaped by filtering and accumulation.

Eunjoo Song (b. in South Korea) is a visual artist who explores the poetic relationship

between sky and materiality through cedar wood as a primary medium. Her ongoing series

Sky Literacy reveals the presence and atmosphere of the sky through processes in which

light, time, and emotional traces permeate the wood grain.

In her recent Sky Window series, she employs the natural grain and knots of wood as

aesthetic structural elements, integrating the concept of Changho—the traditional Korean

window and door structure that filters light and mediates interior and exterior space—into

works on hanji. Through this framework, she investigates the sky as both a visual and

perceptual threshold.

Her practice extends beyond the studio into public space. In 2025, she participated in Deep

into Abstraction at the Seoul National University Museum of Art and was selected for a two-

year public art commission at SOMA Museum in Olympic Park. She also conducted a year-

long public art exhibition project at the public plaza on Saemunan-ro 79 in central Seoul.

Her interdisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, media art, and public art, seeking to create contemplative encounters between environment, architecture, and viewers.

http://www.instagram.com/songeunjoo_art

http://www.facebook.com/EunjooSongs

Self-Evolving Art (Rock Salt Painting on Hanji)

An Artwork Born from Endless Research and Experimentation One day, I watched bubbles drifting across the sea. Sunlit droplets floated gently on calm waves, shimmering with iridescent light and forming delicate, jewel-like shapes. In that moment, I felt a distinct vitality within the reflected light.I began experimenting with paint to capture this luminous energy. Yet paint alone could not fully express the radiant brilliance I had witnessed. Searching for a breakthrough, I thought of an unexpected material: salt. I placed grains of rock salt one by one onto the canvas and crystallized them over forms resembling droplets. As I explored the reflective qualities of the salt, extraordinary shapes began to emerge—forms I had never experienced before.

In my desire to express the pure, untouched sound of life, rock salt became an inevitable choice. Buried for tens of thousands of years, it carries a primordial stillness. Once placed on the canvas, it awakens as if from a deep sleep. It begins to bloom and expand across the surface, like cells dividing and growing.

The salt gradually spreads over the painting, asserting its presence as if claiming new life. It absorbs and releases surrounding moisture, purifying and transforming its environment. Like blossoming salt flowers, it fills the canvas with light. Light, Salt, and the Breath of Life

JU Myung Sun is a Korean-born visual artist who has been active in France for over two decades. She pioneered the original artistic practice of Peinture sur sel gemme (Rock Salt Painting), a body of work that embodies the flow of time and the breath of life within nature.

Rather than seeking artificial completion, Rock Salt Painting embraces the condition of “living art.” Rock salt-an ancient mineral formed over thousands of years-responds to air, light, humidity, and temperature. It breathes, transforms, and continuously alters its surface.

These subtle changes are not merely physical reactions; they are the language of nature itself. Through the salt’s autonomous respiration, the work reveals the passage of time and the cyclical rhythm of life. Through this evolving process, JU explores impermanence, transformation, and the fragile boundary between creation and dissolution. Each piece resists fixity. It exists not as a static object, but as a living organism-continuously shifting between presence and absence.

Her practice moves beyond the conventional boundaries of painting and sculpture, matter and time. For JU Myung Sun, art is not simply something to be observed; it is Art vivant-living art, a vessel of memory and healing that reawakens the profound connection between humanity, nature, and life itself.

http://www.instagram.com/myungsun.ju