Superposition: Floating landscape

SunGallery presents Superposition: Floating Landscape , a solo exhibition by ByoungYun Woo (b. 1988), from October 7 to November 3, 2026. Following his participation in the gallery’s 2024 group exhibition Nature-Regressive Desire , this marks his first solo exhibition at SunGallery. Bringing together 32 paintings, with a focus on his Superposition series and the new Floating Landscape series that builds upon it, the exhibition traces how his exploration of material surfaces has developed into an investigation of landscape forms and pictorial space. ByoungYun Woo seeks to approach nature as a world that continues independently of the human gaze, rather than as a backdrop reflecting his own emotions or memories. In the Superposition series, he applies plaster to wood panels, creating ridges and furrows before adding color and scraping back the painted surface. The act of building up plaster intersects with that of removing color, while the lines formed by the uneven ground cross those made by scraping. Through this process, lines shift between abstract textures, waves, and, at times, mountain-like forms, producing a pictorial surface where material traces and images overlap.

In the new Floating Landscape series, the artist no longer creates ridges and furrows when applying the plaster, as these pre-existing textures can interfere with the lines that shape the mass of a mountain and its surrounding space. Instead, he establishes a field of color on a flat plaster ground, then repeatedly scrapes the painted surface in one direction to reveal the white plaster beneath. As lines of varying lengths and densities accumulate, the contours, tonal values, and volume of a mountain emerge. The landscape is an image that takes shape where color has been removed, rather than one painted by adding color. This shift expands the role of the line.

Here, nature cannot be explained solely through the artist’s emotions or memories. The landscape emerges from the relationships among plaster, color, and the repeated movements of his hand. His approach to nature is connected to the way he handles materials, while the lines and surfaces that construct the landscape remain integral to the work alongside the image itself. Superposition: Floating Landscape shows how the investigation developed through the acts of building up and removing material in Superposition extends into landscape forms and pictorial space. Viewers follow the mountain’s form before turning their attention to the lines and plaster surface that compose it. Through this movement of the gaze, the exhibition invites a renewed perception of the relationships between nature and humans, abstraction and landscape, flatness and depth.