Exhibition Information

2016 Oil on canvas 194.5 x 130.5 cm

Installation view of <Family Report>
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea, 2017

			Born and raised in Seoul, Gigisue is an emerging Korean artist who utilizes various media such as painting, drawing, installation, and video to visualize emotional conflicts she had encountered in adolescence and ultimately to seek reconciliation through her works. She fuses figurative and abstract painting styles to merge the personal with the political: in exploring the personal relationship with her father, Gigisue investigates the impact of patriarchy and capitalism on modern familial relations.
Father Still Life is one of Gigisue’s representative series in which the artist overlaps scribbled drawings on top of still-life paintings drawn faintly. The painting captures the artist’s anguish in dealing with her father’s love which seemed to last perpetually at the time but came to change and ultimately disappear. The still-life in the background signifies the legacy of her father which hovers between spiritual immortality and physical annihilation, while the overlaid scribbled drawings represent happy memories the artist treasures of her father. While Gigisue explores the discrepancy between the ideal and reality, nevertheless she finds a certain existential truth of life in the interplay between the signifier and the signified.
In 2018 Gigisue had solo exhibition <Father Still Life> at 313 Art Project. Her group exhibitions include Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do (2017); Sunggok Museum, Seoul (2016); and Kansong Art and Culture Foundation, Seoul (2016).