Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

(Source = ONE ANE J. GALLERY)

Exhibition view

(Source = ONE ANE J. GALLERY)

Exhibition view

(Source = ONE ANE J. GALLERY)

Exhibition view

(Source = ONE ANE J. GALLERY)

			‘Giant’ is just a nameless empty mass. Whether it be family, religion, or political ideology, incomplete
humans are in need of crutches to lean on. The giant as a collective where all these demands and desires
are reflected has grown huge with flamboyance or grandeur on the outside, but it seems infinitely dull
and lonely. _Artist’s note
Who on earth is the ‘Giant’ that we had hoped for, hoped to see, and have to see? Minae Kim reveals
her old issues bundled into a mass to the outer world through the exhibition, Giant. In the exhibition,
not only the awareness Kim raises as an artist/sculptor can be found but also the essential train of
thought on how one lives as an incomplete human. Everybody has the natural urge to live ‘well’ and we
all strive to reach the approximate value of what is deemed as wholesome such as happiness and honor,
while holding on to faith in oneself, social consensus, or ideology. We depend on and believe something,
yet it is there briefly before our eyes like a mirage, almost tangible but not quite. It could sometimes
suddenly disappear like a phantom. Kim wonders why we live in dependence of such a shell-like illusion which is even less likely than having one’s head in the clouds. Through the exhibition, she portrays her accumulated thoughts on this topic. Like tracing the image reflected in the mirror with your fingers without certainty, Kim questions art and the world as they are shown, and digs them up to organize the
temporary situation called exhibition.
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(Source = ONE ANE J. GALLERY)