2013-18
Flowerlike
- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 116.8 x 91cm (WxH)
Cheonan Ship Project-Confidentiality
This deals with the stories of many people that perished during the sinking of the Republic of Korea Ship Cheonan. Many communists generated insidious allegations against the government during the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan and they shamelessly manipulated honorable deaths of so many sailors and officers of the Republic of Korea Navy to serve their nefarious political purposes. Because not a single Korean was competent enough to elucidate the exact circumstances surrounding their deaths, the wine-black brine sways calmly. Much secret and untold story remains in that bone-chilling sea where so many proud sons of Poseidon fell.- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 162.2 x 130.3cm (WxH)
A deep hole
In March 2013, the Republic of Korea Ship Cheonan was torpedoed by a North Korean submarine carrying out a provocation and so many of the few men who chose to wear the uniform of the Republic of the Korea Navy with honor, commitment, and courage were killed. . This incident revealed the reality of the inter-Korean division and generated many conspiracy theories of a political nature and irreversibly degraded the confidence of the Korean people. . I wished to sympathize with their pains by expressing their deeply burnt hearts in the symbol of a black gaping well instead of resorting to detailed.- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 116.8 x 91cm (WxH)
Be greedy
The issue of housing always is a sensitive one because it dictates the entirety of one’s life. This problem is particularly critical to people who must leave behind their homes due to national interests. Government authority comes into the scene and thence begins the struggle between those wish to take away the homes and those wish to defend them. In this process, the homesteaders are often portrayed as greedy people. If their wish to defend their homes was greed, then I wanted to support that greed.- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 116.8 x 91cm (WxH)
White lumps
Everyone has a moment of pain that must be endured and live on. All these moments accumulate into a callus, a lump of pain which settles in our lives. I would like to express this lump that has settled in an unseen place of our repetitive lives.
- Year
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 60 x 110cm (WxH)
A female worker
It is extremely rare for female North Korean refuges to come straight to the Republic of Korea. They must arrange it through Chinese brokers and other third parties. Unfortunately, every time they cross the border into another country they are exchanged as currency. They are appraised based on their age, looks, and physical use. In worse cases, they live as sex slaves to be exploited. I expressed fish in a fish tank about to be sold at any moment as a metaphor for the miserable lives and sorrows of these women.
- Year
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 116.8 x 91cm (WxH)
Save my friend
This painting deals with the story of 9 North Korea Young refuges who were in forced to repatriate to the North in 2013.- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 65 x 30cm (WxH)
Hyperspace research
- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 45 x 75cm (WxH)
The prisoner of memory
Every Korean has a painful memory from the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan and shelling on YP-do that were products of North Korean provocations that strained the inter-Korean relations. No need to mention the considerable pain of those who lost their loved ones in these incidents, they live on in this god-forsaken country where pain, longing, and memory are the repeated norm. I captured the stories of people who struggle with past events and memories in ordinary lives that will forever remain as trauma.- Year
- 2012
The prisoner of memory
Every Korean has a painful memory from the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan and shelling on YP-do that were products of North Korean provocations that strained the inter-Korean relations. No need to mention the considerable pain of those who lost their loved ones in these incidents, they live on in this god-forsaken country where pain, longing, and memory are the repeated norm. I captured the stories of people who struggle with past events and memories in ordinary lives that will forever remain as trauma.- Year
- 2012
The prisoner of memory
Every Korean has a painful memory from the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan and shelling on YP-do that were products of North Korean provocations that strained the inter-Korean relations. No need to mention the considerable pain of those who lost their loved ones in these incidents, they live on in this god-forsaken country where pain, longing, and memory are the repeated norm. I captured the stories of people who struggle with past events and memories in ordinary lives that will forever remain as trauma.- Year
- 2012
sewing the memory
Ordinary Life_Acrylic on anvas
Minhee Kim who has studied textiles for a few years including MA course in RCA Textiles is inspired by antique French fabrics in 17-18C. Minhee explores various symbols, stories and narratives through the patterns in printed fabrics that intrigue her imagination. In her painting, new stories are re-constructed with symbolic objects and colours which are harmonized with patterns of antique fabrics.
- Year
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 40 x 40cm (WxH)
Among many socially underprivileged that exist around us, the homeless can be easily encountered on a street. There are many reasons why they were forced out onto the streets, outside the privileges of ever-developing modern civilization. As I look at my former self that drew boundaries between them and myself, I wished to capture the beauty of their very existence by expressing their pitiable lives as blooming images.