From January 13th (Friday) to February 4th (Saturday), Jang Design Art presents a diverse world of works in creative formative languages, including Naanna, Shichi, Lee Young-wook, Lim Jun-seong, Han Ji-hoon, Ato Song, Drol, and K.whale. <Otherworld>, a group exhibition of 8 artists from home and abroad. This exhibition sheds light on the works of artists who uniquely express the conscious and the unconscious, and intuitive thoughts generated at the boundary, and hope that this will provide an opportunity to experience the dynamic imaginary world of contemporary artists and take a new look at life.

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Nah Anna

(b. 1987, Lives and works in Seoul)

Contrary to Joseon's literati paintings and folk paintings, where fish were regarded as a symbol of fertility and abundance, in modern society, fish are mainly regarded as human food, and the work is based on longing and compassion for fish. The portrait series is a record of common deaths that do not even deserve to be remembered, and talks about the imaginary lives of those deaths that felt as if they did not exist.

 

Sitch

(b.1989, Lives and works in Seoul)

The artist thinks that his images create the world, and that this is the beginning of all images and languages. The world is not to be seen, but to be understood with the heart, and I am working by recognizing the limitations of language and finding gaps in those limitations and connecting them with my work. The work <Form: Shape> conveys the artist's message that what you see comes from the heart, and that only when you look at it with an empty mind, you can realize everything and see the true shape. <Time: Time> refers to the artist himself as time, and all the shapes he sees move with time, and it expresses that all things can coexist with him only when he acknowledges and respects this. <Universe: Cosmos> symbolizes that I live in the universe, but that I have the universe, and inside and outside are just words and cannot be touched.

 

YI Younguk

(b.1991, Lives and works in Seoul)

Through the work, the artist wants to talk about social customs that consider sex taboo and sex that has been suppressed by being conscious of the gaze of others. Virtual characters are patterned in a pleasant way, leading to a free consciousness. This shows how to break down and expand hypocritical and banal social norms. On the other hand, the aligned pattern images also contain images of fictional characters hiding their instincts and enjoying comfort in them. In this way, the work connotes a double meaning and contains a critical perspective on the way modern people secretly erupt their desires while pretending to accept the reality rather than resisting to get out of the social structure.

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LIM Junsung

(b.1995, Lives and works in Seoul)

<Structuralism> is a chair that expresses mechanical aesthetics through the contrast and structure of exterior and interior. Each element reconstructed with the structural relationship between the car engine and the aluminum frame and its original role removed captures various imaginations and unique beauty associated with mechanical devices.

 

HAN Jihoon

(b.1990, Lives and works in Seoul)

In the stage of realizing an image, the processing method of a digital image composed of 0 and 1 is borrowed and the calculus rules of mathematics used in the digital signal system are applied. In the process of inducing the formation of immaterial images originating from digital to the analog world, we intend to redefine the boundary between virtual and real by utilizing physical senses. The process of work borrows errors and differences caused by calculating the output value of digital images. Visual elements familiar to the public are selected in their own way, and they are repeatedly dismantled and reconstructed through taping or origami to express them. As a result, the images that make up the work also become a link to each other, enabling visual association. do.

 

Ato Song

(b.1992, Lives and works in Seoul)

The screen filled with personal memories, reality, and attachment to life constantly creates a narrative, and presents the moments of solitude and healing that the artist has experienced so far in a unique formative language. The artist adapts to various environmental changes in life and melts memories of finding her identity all over the screen, which provides various internal experiences and thoughts to the audience in the realm of complete abstraction. The work <Therapy> criticizes the dichotomous way of thinking that it is normal to draw windows large and clean in psychological counseling as a child, and it is a work that makes us think about diversity once again. The work <State of Mind> is said to have been enjoyed and freely worked while listening to the artist's favorite music and expressing everything that he thought intuitively at the time.

 

Drol

(b.1986, Lives and works in Seoul)

Born in France, Drol is working on blurring the boundaries between everyday life and art based on his interest in subcultures such as rap, hip-hop, classic comics, and cartoons. The work <Temple of Mood> is a mysterious work where the tradition and the modern meet, and two different creatures merge. Haitai, which symbolizes tradition in the work, is also called Haechi, a legendary animal in Korean mythology who judges good and evil. The artist transferred the shape and surface texture of the Haitai statue to his painting work. The poodle, which symbolizes modern times, was widely known as the pet dog of King Louis XIV of France at the end of the 16th century. At the time, when it was used as a duck hunting dog in Europe, dog owners groomed the poodle into a 'lion cut' that reminded them of a brave lion suitable for hunting. However, the artist focused on this and expressed the image of a brave poodle in the work. The shape is reminiscent of a poodle, but the surface is expressed in the texture of haetae, and the work is completed as a work showing the intersection of tradition and modernity.

 

K.whale

(b.1984, Lives and works in Seoul)

The artist explores materials that have been forgotten or unnecessary due to the rapid development of modern society, and presents abstract and structural works by recombining and transforming them. The <Parasitic Lighting: Parasitic Lighting> series recombines an unknown lighting to achieve its basic function of brightness and various materials parasitic to it with intuitive aesthetics, and the materials woven together through the light By redefining function, form, color, etc., the artist breaks away from the tedium of existing definitions and materials with dead symmetrical shapes, thereby establishing a new balance that the artist is trying to show.