Scott&Jae Gallery of Beverly Hills is pleased to present SEOSY’s “Labyrinth of Origin,” the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and second collaboration following the 2024 LA Art Show. “Labyrinth of Origin” features nineteen new sculptural paintings that engage with eastern philosophical discourses on the nature of existence and Buddhist conceptions of emptiness. The exhibition will be on from December 7th, 2024 to January 10th, 2025. 

SEOSY’s art is a meditation on the Buddhist concept of emptiness (Śūnyatā in Sanskrit; 空 in classical Chinese). Buddhist philosophy understands all things to be empty in that they lack intrinsic nature or existence; they are instead dependently originated, meaning that the existence of each thing is dependent on the existence of all other things. SEOSY’s paintings manifest emptiness in that they do not depict or represent any one thing or idea. Instead, the manifold intricate ridges arising from the hand-molded hanji paper reproduce the dense web of interconnections upon which all existence depends. Folding in and out of themselves in a labyrinthine manner, the gilded creases of the hanji paper spread out in a dendritic pattern, visually echoing the Buddhist saying, “When there is this, that comes to be; with the arising of this, that arises. When there is not this, that does not come to be; with the cessation of this, that ceases” (Samyutta Nikaya 12.61).