Exhibition Information

child of a tree
2019 Korean paper and coloring 130.3×193.9cm

heat forest
2019 Korean paper and coloring 130.3×193.9cm

moss road
2019 Korean paper and coloring 29.7×21.1cm×2 (부분)

Middle. carved
2019 colouring cloth 45.5×33.4cm

			In fact, plants, people, and animals all have mixed characteristics rather than split into these conflicting characteristics. Plants move like animals like mimosa and Venus, and animals like frogs like winter sleep or meditating monks are sometimes as static as plants. Also, there are animals that look like animals in the tangled trees and that look like leaves or branches. That is why it sometimes becomes meaningless to divide objects with the words animal and vegetable.



I feel that the complex, tangled nature of an object formed over a long period of time cannot be fully captured by limited words such as animal and vegetable. I would like to express the ambiguity of such a boundary through various landscapes. But I chose to add my imagination to the natural features, not simply reveal the animal nature that plants have, but also the plant nature that animals have. 



The baby of the tree is translated directly from the Japanese word "Kinoko." The real meaning is 'bake mushrooms,' which I find very vague. A child has human sensibility, and a tree is the most common plant among plants. Not only a single mushroom, but also another tree with its surrounding moss and countless leaves could be a huge forest that combines all of them. In the process of tree giving birth to someone, we ask the question, "Are eggs first or chicken first?" and try to find ourselves and identity and ask questions on the journey that is germinated as me.

- Kim Hyo-jin Writer Notes