JIHI

This winter Pontone Gallery exhibits at the prestigious Art Miami fair. The gallery showcases a selection of its international artists, who range across the fields of painting, lightbox and sculpture....

South Korean artist JIHI is a creature of digital culture, intimately familiar with its tropes and abbreviations. She paints clusters and sequences of symbols and pictograms in flat, bright colour. Her compositions are assertively decorative, eschewing any spatial depth. Occasional letterforms spell out banal slogans, echoing the simple concepts of online attention-seeking. Pontone Gallery is pleased to showcase this compelling series of paintings in our London gallery.

Pontone Gallery introduces the exuberantly-graphic paintings of South Korean artist, JIHI. Young and female, she is a creature of digital culture, intimately familiar with its tropes and abbreviations. Her images owe something to the structures of graffiti, but are also, more importantly, aligned with the forms and usages of the screen.