COEX 1F B Hall
513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam District
Seoul, Korea
https://plasticartseoul.com/
Opening: May 22, 2025
Dates: May 22-25, 2025
Conversation: May 24, 2025 at 3:30pm
Monica Jun is pleased to present the work of Alexandra Grant at the PLAS Art Show, taking place in Seoul, South Korea, from May 22-25, 2025. Jun will exhibit new paintings and works on paper by Grant, from both her Antigone 3000and Everything Belongs to the Cosmos series.
This is Jun’s second exhibition of Grant’s work in Korea. The first was Mantra, a solo exhibition and accompanying catalog that took place at the Positive Art Center from November 5, 2022 — February 11, 2023.
There will be a conversation between Grant and the curator Alma Ruiz on May 24, 2025 at 3:30pm. Ruiz has curated multiple exhibitions about Grant’s work, beginning with the MOCA (Los Angeles) exhibition in 2007, MOCA Focus: Alexandra Grant.
For more information about the fair and available works, please contact: culturenomad2020@gmail.com.

The curiosity that drives artist Alexandra Grant’s career comes from her exploration of literary texts and making them visual. Since 2014, her work has revolved around Sophocles’ myth of Antigone and interpreting Antigone’s utterance “I was born to love not to hate.” Grant has painted Antigone’s voice interspersed with straight lines (to represent the rule of law) and bright pours of paint (which capture the natural chaos of life). The series Antigone 3000 was the focus of her exhibition Mantra at the Positive Art Center curated by Monica Jun in 2022-3 in Korea.
From the Mantra press release: “On the elaborate surfaces of these smaller works, the repetitive use of I was born to love not to hate becomes a mantra-like chant that echoes across as the letters begin to break down and gradually vanish under dots, stars, lines, and pours.”
In Neunte Universum (Ninth Universe), 2020, painted and exhibited in Berlin in 2021 at carlier | gebauer gallery, Grant’s Antigone 3000 series expanded to include the universe itself. This painting was technically and culturally a springboard for her next body of work, Everything Belongs to the Cosmos.
The works Alexandra Grant will exhibit at the PLAS Art Show in Seoul come from both bodies of work – Antigone 3000 and the recent series Everything Belongs to the Cosmos. This latter phrase comes from research and exchanges Grant has been having since 2021 with a group of contemporary female Polish writers and poets.

The exhibition at PLAS highlights several aspects of Grant’s work: her interest in promoting female and feminine voices and writers through her painting and publishing practices; her interest in handwriting in a time of digital communication; her love of color and composition to represent complex thought processes and narratives; and the way that cultural exchanges through the language of art can connect those who don’t speak the same language.
