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KIAF 2010
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Somewhere Here, 30x80x70cm, mixed media, 2010
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KIM Soyeon
Art seems to be a fantasy that is miles away from reality, but, at one point, art sometimes comes close to our lives. By appreciating and creating art, people can express their emotions deep in their hearts. So they can enjoy relaxation effect, and it is therefore good to cure scars of wounded hearts. I’d like to talk about child psychology that comes from the issues of child development around our neighborhood, through the art that functions to cure wounded hearts. Recently, children around us seem to have no problems on the outside. Inside, however, many of them hide emotions of loneliness deep in their hearts. These children do not communicate with others. This is because they have problems in forming attachment with their parents in their early stages of life, which would also influence the development of relationships with others later. These children do not know trust and love for others, and they cannot break the shell of their inner world. They are always afraid of others and their neighboring environment. They have attachment disorder. They are often obsessed with particular objects or colors, and they get to express their anxiety through their defense mechanism. My work aimed at expressing these heartrending stories of such children who refuse to communicate with the outer world, in order to offer a chance of invisible and indirect communications between these children and others. With this project as a chance, I hope to be of help for children with attachment disorder to cure their wounded hearts. The artist and spectators could be one with these children, recall their own memories of repression and cure those memories. I hope. EDUCATION 2009 MFA. Sculpture Major, Kook Min University 2006 BFA. Sculpture Major, Kook Min University SOLO EXHIBITION 2010 “Possession is an alienating illusion”, Gallery SUN contemporary, Seoul 2008 “Sorrow, so Smile”, Song Eun Gallery SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Naturalness, Lina Gallery, Seoul The Spring Fairy Tale, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju 2010 KIAF/10, COEX, Seoul Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair/10, Shilla Hotel, Seoul SOAF/10, COEX, Seoul Alice’s Picture Box, Ansan Arts Center, Ansan 2009 LOCO-Motive Engineer, Gallery SUN contemporary, Seoul My Collection, Gallery SUN, Seoul Daegu Art Fair, EXCO, Daegu KIAF/09, COEX, Seoul Arts for Children, Kolon Tower Child's Hope, Gana Art Center Apologue of Five-artists, Doo San Art Square Tictac – Korean Sculpture Exhibition, Gallery Godo Expressive Museum of Art , Wol Jeon Museum of Art Icheon 2008 Wander on the Sky Exhibition, 63 Sky Art Museum ASYAAF "When We First Met,“, Seoul Station Old Bldg “Dreaming Box” 2008 KIMI For You, KIMI Art Gallery “Hello, Chelsea! 2007“ (final 11 selection ), PS 35 Gallery NY “Real Image: made in Korea Exhibition”, INSA Art Center “How to Travel with the Others”, Graduate School Building, Ewha Womans 2007 “5 artists of Sculpture Exhibition”, Kook Min Art Gallery |
