Con_ gallery is currently showing ‘Red Winter’, a solo exhibition by Seoul-based artist Koesy. Self-taught and originally rooted in digital 3D, Koesy now works mainly in sculpture; making these alien-like figures that feel like they’ve crossed over from the screen into real weight and presence.
The works don’t try to be ‘explained’; they sit there like characters mid-mutation, quiet but kind of confrontational. They’re often larger than you expect, with a physical closeness that makes you aware of your own body in the room. There’s a push-pull to them: soft-looking surfaces with an underlying unease, like something tender that still isn’t safe to touch. Koesy avoids locking the pieces into a clean narrative, so the story lands on you through mood – texture, silence, discomfort, and whatever your brain starts filling in. ‘Red Winter’ comes from that feeling of carrying an internal coldness regardless of the season outside, and the show holds onto that same weird temperature.