Leesop Cho, Voici Voice at Caption Seoul, Seoul

Voici Voice by Leesop Cho, at Caption Seoul, Seoul, 19/04/2025–16/05/2025.

Exhibition text:
Leesop Cho’s solo exhibition Voici Voice, presented as part of Caption Seoul’s 2024 Open Call [CaSOC02], is on view from April 19 to May 16, 2025. The title combines the French term “VOICI,” evoking presence and immediacy, with “VOICE,” a word that connotes not only speech, but also assertion, identity, and visibility. Together, they frame the exhibition as a meditation on contemporaneity and subjectivity. Cho explores queer identity through a sculptural language that brings together a self-defined notion of love, the appropriation of queer pornographic imagery (in dialogue with Hervé Guibert’s visual hierarchies), and the tactile and decorative qualities of textiles and found materials. Fluidly shifting between sculpture and painting, he integrates readymade trimmings, patterned textiles, and unconventional craft materials to construct structures that carry affective weight. Rather than presenting a linear narrative or completed installations, Voici Voice deliberately foregrounds incompletion. The space evokes a studio-like atmosphere: loosely arranged materials, traces of sound and scent, and the absence of captions or wall texts create an immersive, in-progress environment. The exhibition unfolds as a diaristic assemblage of emotional fragments, personal references, and dissonant forms. This method of presentation reflects Cho’s longstanding interest in queer temporality and non-normative modes of intimacy. His recurring use of decoration, domesticity, and erotic imagery challenges the boundaries of form and ethics—asking what lies beyond legibility, coherence, or moral clarity. In doing so, Voici Voice functions both as a personal archive and as an ongoing inquiry into the unstable terrain of desire, visibility, and self-definition.