Space Willing N Dealing is pleased to present <No Arrow of Time (無向時間)>, a solo exhibition by JooLee Kang on view from October 10 to November 2, 2025. Kang has consistently developed her artistic practice through painting and installation based on the fundamental materials of drawing-paper and ink. In this exhibition, the artist focuses on the process of occupying the pictorial plane while she is faithful to her subject matter as well as emphasizing formal composition. Multiple entities which are evenly arranged like a collage appear in her work and the surface of her paintings repeats cycles of expansion and convergence. Fragmented images reveal drifting landscape.

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Having received professional training in Go game (Baduk) during childhood, Kang learned to think through strict calculation and anticipation, visualizing countless moves in her mind. However, a fixed and enclosed field of Go board, composed of 361points and allowed no further expansion, became the source of her frustration. This experience later motivated her to explore a modular pictorial structure that continues seamlessly, where each segment remains open-ended, leading organically to the next.

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Earlier this year, Kang experienced traditional papermaking in Jeonju and embraced the unexpected errors that occurred during the process as integral parts of her work. Through experiments that depart from standardized production methods, she accentuated the material presence and tactility of paper by allowing chance to intervene. After her installation of casting rocks last year, she continued to incorporate the frottage technique, transferring the physical state of real objects directly onto the medium. The fibers of paper intertwine to cast surfaces of ecosystem like her grotesquely writhing images of hybrid creatures-plants and animals, or different species of animals. The layered paper, imbued with texture of place, invites viewers to experience tactile sensations of the material directly at the exhibition.