Category: Solo Exhibitions

A Quiet Wildness
Solo Exhibition by Beki Song
Presented by Temple Gallery

Exhibition on View: May 31st – June 4th, 2025
Opening Reception: May 31st, 2025

Temple Gallery presents A Quiet Wildness, a solo exhibition by New York-based Korean artist Beki Song. Through sculpture, painting, and installation, the exhibition quietly explores emotions that are difficult to name—love, attachment, loneliness, and longing. At the center of the show are Song’s sculptural figures, which she calls “wild babies.” These beings give shape to feelings that don’t always come out right. They were born from the desire to be loved, but their forms are strange, awkward, and tender all at once.

Beki Song’s work shares an emotional thread with Where the Wild Things Are—the longing to be understood, the imaginative world of those who feel unseen—but moves into a more personal and intimate space. Instead of escaping into fantasy, this exhibition reflects the artist’s quiet confrontation with her own inner world.

In the main gallery, each sculpture is placed on its own floating wall-mounted shelf. On the wall facing them is a large watercolor mural that sets the emotional tone for the space. Small paintings and drawings are also installed nearby, depicting cellular or embryonic creatures. These images feel like unnamed feelings or beings that are still in the process of becoming.

Walking inside the gallery, a larger sculpture appears: a blue creature with the body of a unicorn and the face of a mouse-like human. The artist describes it as “a version of myself that protects me.” The unicorn represents the dream of ideal love, while the mouse connects to her own birth sign in the East Asian zodiac. This hybrid figure is the most symbolic piece in the show, encapsulating both the fantasy and fragility that run through the entire exhibition.

Each sculpture is handmade from materials such as clay, plaster, human hair, fabric, wood, and synthetic hair. Their textures are soft and tactile, but their presence is visually striking—at times even surreal or fantastical. These small beings may appear quiet, but they leave a vivid impression. They invite the viewer to pause, reflect, and gently consider their own emotional landscape.

A Quiet Wildness is an invitation to turn inward. The show reminds us that love is not always clean or beautiful, and that our efforts to express it are often imperfect. But maybe that’s precisely why they matter. The exhibition asks: What kind of quiet wildness do you carry inside you? And what face might your inner creature wear?