*가나다순

경기문화재단 로비갤러리

Unfamiliarity, Familiarity

2017-11-06 ~ 2017-12-08 /

We look at both ourselves in a mirror as well as the faces of innumerable other people every day. The images of ourselves and others that we come across in daily life appear familiar and yet unfamiliar every now and then. We are often in a repetition or intersection of such experiences. The subject matter of “face” acts as a sign to unmask one’s identity in works by Kim Na-ri and Jung Jung-yeop and serves as an opportunity for viewers to have such familiar or unfamiliar experiences.


Kim Na-ri has continued to work on ceramic heads and busts that stare straight ahead. The faces she makes from concrete shapes molded out of clay are images of happenstance whose results she has never predicted. These faces are thought to be something universal found somewhere in our lives while they at times appear alien when examined closely. Kim’s ceramic works give preference to our experience of facing oneself as a sign others see. Jung Jung-yeop’s mirror works, on the other hand, denote our experience with communication as seen from the viewer’s point of view. Jung raises objects laden with others’ reminiscences to the level of art by his delicate hand based on mirrors he was given or collected himself. Placed in the Lobby Gallery after several exhibit spaces, a hand-stained mirror that reflects someone’s face welcomes new viewers.


The works of the two artists we come across here now are expanded and reproduced when they are in sync with the audience’s eyes. It is our expectation that this exhibition will be an opportunity to consider how we perceive our own images, crossing over our experience of encountering seemingly familiar and unfamiliar faces.




Exhibition landscape



세부정보

  • Unfamiliarity, Familiarity

    Period/ 2017.11.06 ~ 2017.12.06

    Venue/ Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation lobby

    Participated artists/ Kim Nari, Jung Jung-yeop

    Opening/ 2017.11.06 Mon. 18:00

  • Hosted and Organized by/ Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation

    Open hours/ Mon. ~ Fri. 9:00 ~ 18:00

글쓴이
경기문화재단 로비갤러리
자기소개
로비갤러리는 경기문화재단 1층에 위치하여 시각예술에 대한 접근의 문턱을 낮추고 문화를 향유할 수 있는 다채로운 만남을 시도하는 열린 공간입니다. 경기도를 거점으로 활동하는 예술가와 시각예술을 지원하는 다양한 재단 사업을 되짚어보는 전시를 통해 예술가들에게 창작의 기회를 제공하고자 합니다.