Self-portrait 005 Sandpaper on linen, 45.4x37.8cm, 2022
Self-portrait 005 Sandpaper on linen, 45.4x37.8cm, 2022

Artist Statement by Hoh Kim


์ €์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์€ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€(the second half of life)๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์—ฌ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡(container) ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ํƒ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ถ์˜ ๊ตด๊ณก, ์ƒ์ฒ˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ผ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ €๋Š” ์กฐํ˜•์ ์ธ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์žํ™”์ƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ฌด์˜ ๊ฒฐ, ์˜น์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์งˆ๊ฐ์€ ์กฐ๊ฐ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ์ง„์‹ค์„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๊ฐ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ๋˜๋Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ ธ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ถŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ์—์„œ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? 


My art is a journey towards the 'second half of life' – a quest for meaning within the 'container of identity'.  Working with wood, a material that embodies life's falls, scars, and complexities, I craft sculptural forms and evocative self-portraits.  The grain, knots, and textures speak of hidden truths, magically revealed through the carving process. I invite viewers to contemplate their own journey as they engage with my work, asking: What do you truly want in your life? 


*'The second half of Life' and 'container' came from Falling Upward by Richard Rohr.


 



Contact: hoh.kim@thelabh.com

Instagram: @hoh.kim