Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Seonna Hong's solo exhibition Past Lives at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art. Featuring new paintings and mixed-media works, the exhibition explores landscape, the figure, and repurposed materials as a vessel for magical thinking. Hong weaves stories and symbols from one lived experience to another, reflecting on past life chapters and threading meaning through memory, fate and ancestral heritage.
The exhibition title, borrowed from the 2023 film, examines identity-defining memories and how threads of fate expand and connect through reflection and imposed narratives. Hong explains, “There is an undeniable romanticism tied to longing, a connection to a time and place and all of its roots, but it is through choosing to live in the present moment that true love shows itself, because it is here that all the layers are seen." often repurposing materials in her art practice, hong also portrays places that speak to environmental uncertainties caused by humans and their position within the landscape.
On View: February 13th to June 22nd
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
1928 St. Marys Rd
Moraga, CA 94575
