First solo show in 12 years at Gallery Hyundai includes new moon series'I nearly died from COVID-19 last year,' said the New York-based artist Kang Ik-joong in an interview with The Korea Herald earlier this month.'For about a week, I couldn't breathe well. Lying down didn't help, sitting didn't help,' he said. 'So one day, I went out to the garden, opened my chest and began taking deep breaths like this,' he said, pushing his chest forward with his arms up wide open and looking upward. 'I was able to breathe a little better when I opened up my chest, expanding the space,' he said.

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