Born: 1979, Korea.
Education:
MA, Central St Martins of Art & Design, London, UK.
MA Fine Art, Hongik University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea.
BA Fine Art, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea.
Exhibitions:
2008 - Degree Show 08, Central St Martins of Art & Design, London.
System & Patterns 2, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
CSM Interim Show, Barge House, London.
2007 - Wimbledon Studio Open Show, Wimbledon Studio, London.
2004 - Solo show, ‘The Weirdest Place’, Samsung Raemian Cultural Centre, Seoul.
Statement:
I stimulate my imagination and make characters which are part human, part creature. I look to the human body, everyday scenes and space. In particular, I dismantle the human body and join it with parts of non-humans such as insects and animals. ‘My creatures’ , which are human bodies joined with other creatures, do not look like an organic human which can live in the world. This combined creature can be described as having their own world in which nobody, particularly ordinary people, can disturb or interrupt them.
I believe that the unique images connected with human and other creatures’ bodies in my paintings have come from my unconsciousness or memories that mix with my experience and past thoughts. Those kinds of things are connected with the human body which could symbolise me and affect to create stories with them. ‘My creatures’ exist in a space separated from the real world. They can be free and safe in the space looking like human internal organs. Often, I represent closed and independent space on my artworks to put my images. This independent space reflects steps of recollection that go back to the childhood when I was likely to make a boundary between myself and others in order to exist in my own world, which was ‘my fantasyland’. |
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