Heejo Kim – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS

A collection of work by Korean artist Heejo Kim. Kim acquired her BFA from Hongik College in Seoul and MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger College of Portray on the Maryland Institute Faculty of Artwork in Baltimore, Maryland. Specializing in reestablishing identification and existence by means of relationships with others and objects, Kim’s observe explores ambiguity by dissolving seen markers of identification comparable to gender, age, and ethnicity. She permits her figures to quietly “be” somewhat than act. Her work can also be knowledgeable by Roland Barthes’s notion of tenderness as an moral mode of “being-with” in addition to the Buddhist idea of Dependent Arising (Yeongi-sull)—’I exist since you exist, and also you exist as a result of I exist.’ This philosophy means that understanding oneself isn’t a solitary act, however a course of deeply rooted in relationality—with others, with house, and with time.” Embracing the unsure house between self and different, Kim’s figures linger in stillness and an underlying sense of interconnection:

“The figures in my oil work typically lack seen facial expressions; in some works, their eyes and mouths are solely absent, leaving solely their noses and ears. This ambiguity blurs the boundary between self and different, evoking the Buddhist notion of Anatta (“non-self”), which teaches that identification isn’t mounted however regularly formed by means of connection and alter. Although the figures could seem unreadable at first, they’re deeply related by means of interpersonal relationships.”