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Hee Jyung Kim
Hee Jyung Kim is a South Korean artist who explores and finds the beauty of chaos in her paintings. Seeing chaos as the mixing of opposites: light and dark, inside and outside, consciousness and unconsciousness, yin and yang, she makes them all coexist in her works. By expressing herself with painting, she simultaneously captures the inner self and the meaning of the chaos of reality of the outside world.
In-between, 2022
57.3h x 76w cm
Indian ink, wax pastel, pencil, acrylic spray, acrylic on paper
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“Creating my work is a way to escape from the fixed gaze in reality by expressing my freedom and exploring the chaos.”
Painting is like catharsis to Hee Jyung. It’s a way to get what’s stuck inside to come out. It releases and thereby provides relief from strong emotions from within. This expression is related to this working of the inside and outside, the physical versus the psychological, these opposite sides that coexist, like chaos, together in her work. It offers a deep dive into the fleeting realm of memory-experience, and the physical sensation of the mundane every day, through her body of work.
Out there (blue), 2020
113.8h x 150w cm
Wax pastel, pencil, Indian ink, graphite and acrylic on canvas
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“Chaos exists inside me and throughout our lives.
We live in a world of chaos.”
Pivotal to Hee Jyung’s artistic practice is the sense of freedom that real moment brings, as she hunts for images out of the innermost human psyche. As such, juxtapositions and borders between all of these contrasting things; memory - sensation, real-world - psyche, the mind - the body co-exists freely and well within her art.
Out there (red), 2020
124h x 141w cm
Wax pastel, pencil, Indian ink, graphite and acrylic on canvas
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“There is always chaos in my paintings. The chaos of light and darkness, inside and outside, consciousness and unconsciousness, yin and yang, all coexist in my paintings. Furthermore, that frequently changes. I pour out the beauty of that boundary. During the process of drawing pictures in order to see the inner me and capture the meaning of the outside world, I meet my inner self and the chaos of reality.”
Untitled, 2022
111h x 76.5w cm
Indian ink, wax pastel, pencil, oil bar, acrylic spray, acrylic on paper
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She portrays these disparities by using contrasting colours and dynamic strokes that beautifully meld into the canvas. So, within Hee Jyung’s pieces, viewers will often witness certain harmonies between a sense of aloofness of the memories depicted by the more subdued, lighter colours with softer strokes; next to the solid physicality of real-world experiences, expressed by the bold markings with more vivid colour choices. As an artist, Hee Jyung continues to develop her practice by integrating numerous media and formats as her tools for stylistic explorations. Armed with these tools, as she practices more, she hopes to mould a new genre of painting, an evolution of the traditional painting form, which she called “expanded painting”.
The Hole series, selected for LDN 2DAY, is about visualising the coexistence of inner and outer worlds. In these works, Hee Jyung wants to repeatedly suggest that her mind and spirit are free in her work. It's about feeling the emotions or energy the artist feels in the process of creating paintings. She explains how it’s like catharsis.
Yellow wave no. 1, 2020
41.8w x 59.4h cm
Acrylic on paper
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“I want to repeatedly suggest that my mind and spirit are free in my work. I'd like to talk about such invisible things, but this visual image that I create is the nature of the object itself, so I create images that reveal action using the unkempt, incomplete and accidental drawings to mirror my free spirit.”
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Yellow wave no. 2, 2020
41.8w x 59.4h cm
Acrylic on paper
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£ 800.00
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The other selected works, Yellow Wave no. 1 and Yellow Wave no. 2 are part of another series, the Water Series. Being an extension of the Hole Series, it looks at boundaries in another way. For Hee Jyung, water represents the free mind and spirit. In this way, it's an exploration of the boundary between our lives, body and water.
“I try to make an environment myself to feel these emotions and immerse myself in the work. This is because I think abstract paintings should be approached more honestly and sincerely from the process of making it. For example, when we clean, we sweat a little and immerse ourselves for a passionate moment. At that moment, I felt similar to my actions when I drew abstract lines. Inspired by this moment, I often use cleaning supplies for my work tools. Although the result images don’t look like clear from the process, I hope that such energy will be contained, and the catharsis will be conveyed a little.”
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LDN 2DAY is a virtual group show and will be on view until the 4th of June, 2022.
Artwork photographs courtesy of the artist. Portraits taken by Alina zum Hebel (website/ instagram).
Photography courtesy of the artist.
