SHIFT
SONG E YOON
May 1 – June 3, 2026 | New York
OPENING RECEPTION : May 15, 5-7 pm, 2026
Space 776 Gallery
37-39 Clinton ST NY10002
SPACE776 New York is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Song E Yoon, on view from May 1 through June 3, 2026. This exhibition is organized in celebration of the artist’s official invitation to participate in a Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia.
This New York presentation is conceived in continuity with her solo exhibition SHIFT, held at SPACE776 Seoul (March 6–April 1, 2026). While the Seoul exhibition traced the evolution of her practice from 2008 to the present, framing it through the notion of “shift,” the New York exhibition focuses more specifically on the body of work developed since her relocation to New York in 2013—where a significant transformation in her thinking and methodology took place.
Since moving to New York, Song E Yoon has expanded her practice beyond medium-specific concerns, developing a research-driven approach that explores the conditions through which invisible phenomena become perceptible. Working fluidly between painting and installation, she investigates the relationship between material and immaterial, visible, and invisible dimensions. Within this trajectory, the artist proposes the term Intangible Art as a conceptual framework. Rather than defining a genre or stylistic category, Intangible Art describes an approach that attends to the moment when immaterial and invisible dimensions temporarily surface through material and media. In this sense, an artwork is not a fixed or completed object, but a trace—a record of the transition from the invisible into the sensory realm.
The paintings and installations presented in this exhibition embody this ongoing inquiry. Painting is no longer a site of representation, but a field where color and layered structures reveal processes of emergence and dissolution. Installation functions not as a structure that occupies space, but as a condition that allows viewers to sense time, absence, and intangible energy. The viewer is thus positioned not as an observer, but as a participant navigating the threshold between material and immaterial.
Presented in the city where this body of work was formed, the New York exhibition reactivates the context in which Song E Yoon’s practice has evolved. In dialogue with the Seoul exhibition, it emphasizes continuity rather than conclusion, presenting her work as an ongoing and unfolding process. Following her participation in the Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia, this exhibition further situates her practice within an expanded international discourse—inviting reflection on perception, time, and the invisible dimensions that shape our experience of the world.
