The periphery is an intriguing subject. It is not singular but rather noisy and chaotic. It is a space for countless others who have been pushed out and excluded, a land of the past where things that couldn't occupy the present have gathered. Unlike the uniform gravity in the centre, the periphery is characterized by erratic and tumultuous forces of indeterminate magnitude and direction. This is the focal point of Yongseok OH's interest. The chaos created by the mixture of ancient constellation symbols, shapes outside the boundaries, and lights and colours of unknown origin. The artist sometimes refers to these as 'anachronistic (Anacrónico),' but at the same time, he also calls them beauty (Charis).
However, this beautiful periphery can only exist by imagining the centre. The periphery is a post-existent entity that arises only after imagining the fictional centre and drawing lines to create boundaries from it. The artist, who has imagined beyond dichotomies such as black and white, female and male, centre and periphery, addresses the impossibility of demarcation in Charis: A Temporary Appearance of Something Far Away. At the juncture where blue and red forces converge, a thin line does not form to create a boundary; rather, the two forces intermingle to generate a new force.
At both the start and end points of the exhibition, there is a painting depicting a circular light burning white—the corona. The corona, the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere, is a thin gaseous layer that is typically difficult to observe but can be seen with the naked eye during a total solar eclipse when the moon entirely obscures the sun. Likewise, the true form of a subject can only be realized by negating the fictional conception of the centre. The manifestation of the big Other is thus both ominous and beautiful.