Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM to Friday, August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to host PKM Gallery for an exhibition in Los Angeles. A prominent Korean gallery, PKM has chosen to exhibit a solo presentation of Korean multidisciplinary artist and musician Bek Hyunjin, introducing his gestural and poetic practice to Los Angeles for the first time. Entitled Seoul Syntax, the exhibition will be on view July 12 through August 29, 2025.Bek Hyunjin was born in Seoul and has lived and worked there for over 50 years. While the city has remained a constant in his life, Seoul itself is always changing and evolving. Both systematic and variable, the city is a juxtaposition of both stability and insecurity in Bek’s life. Seoul Syntax translates the artist’s experiences of his hometown – the emotions, thoughts, and sensations rooted in this place – to the city of Los Angeles.Syntax refers to the structure and order of language, as well as the relationship between signs and their meanings – rife with slippages and misalignments. Across painting, installation, sound, and performance, Bek Hyunjin’s work captures Seoul’s chaotic and restless patterns, mapping its unique rhythms and structures.