For three decades the Busan-based artist Eunju Kim has drawn with a single tool: the graphite pencil. In the 1990s her subject was the human figure, rendered in hard, cutting line. From the mid-2000s she turned to waves, leaves and flowers. Noon Light and Shadow, her solo exhibition at the Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul’s Samcheong-dong gallery district, marks her return to the figure, and sets new work beside drawings made thirty years ago.

At the centre of the exhibition is Untitled (2026), a drawing almost ten metres wide, made from seven sheets of paper, each 230 × 140 cm. It does not hang on the wall but stands on a curved support that bends towards the viewer. Legs, backs and arms crowd the surface and merge into a single dark mass, while the bare paper left between them cuts sharp shapes through it. Up close, the black is not a flat fill but countless strokes following the turn of each body.

That black is the product of repetition. Kim draws line after line over the same passage,…