Exhibition Information

			Complicated daily events are so tightly blocked that it sometimes feels as if there is no breakthrough in the way ahead. With a sensitivity like needle, you may want some force to make a hole somewhere and then head forward again, or at least create a breathing gap. Writer Koo Ji-hyun works by applying physical force to the work directly pressing and making holes, imprinting and transferring emotional agitation caused by observing people in relation and inertia on canvas. The engraving technique that presses the image onto the screen with strong pressure, and the movement of the needle and thread that pokes and passes through the screen creates the shape. To him, work is a process of reminding people of their appearance and behavior and moving them to the screen, releasing unpleasant emotions, especially anger, pain and sadness. The work process itself is a work and a conduit for the author to look into the events he tries to confront through it.

The stitching used in the work does not take any feminine gesture. The author adopted the act of repeated "piercing" as the best way to counter it, recreating the violence and anger found in everyday life, media and intertwined human relationships in various aspects. Sewing in this way does not come from the traditional way of stitching or embroiling something, but is a means that has never been entirely met before. To him, needles and thread are tools for stabbing, piercing, weaving, and tangling objects.

In fact, they are intertwined and literally 'Intertwined Complexity' and represent the faces of the various kinds of relationships, who deal with them. The author portrays the subtle and bizarre aspects of these faces, such as irrational attitudes and fanatic obsession or indifference that people show in such a relationship. Facial and facial muscles are grotesquely exaggerated, expressed in impulsive and primary colors. The heterogeneous texture of the face sticking out of the screen with multiple layers of thread draws attention. The method of showing the front and back sides of the face expressed in embroidery, and the three-dimensional objects expressed in harmony, furthermore, in a single uncanny theatrical scene. In addition, the theatrical stage where these works are gathered is sublimated to the black comedy scene with direct and specific action titles such as "Hello, Let's Eat Next Time" and "look" The author expresses the inner impulse that people try to hide with their facial expressions, or to reveal, with a modified outer face. This breaks down the boundaries between the inside and the outside and removes the illusion, revealing the true image of the people dealing with the relationship.

The reason why various relationships are intertwined and not separated from each other in this exhibition is because of the "violence" and "irregularity" they share. The author expresses irrational behavior of people dealing with relationships, and eventually finds a structure in which each other is forced to commit violence against each other in social affairs. The reason why inevitable relationships in everyday life become painful is because of the hierarchy or emotional conflict that works in between them. The power that is exerted on an individual, and the way he is treated against it, continues to consume individual emotions. Tired of this, modern people sometimes flee into virtual spaces where they can escape from the shackles and the consumption of emotions from the hierarchy. But the superficial communication coming and going in here leaves a greater void and further isolates oneself in reality because it fails to meet expectations of a true relationship. The author reveals the cross-section of these relationships in reality by stabbing them with sharp needles and weaving them into thread. And in the social structure of yesterday and today, where each other is tangled, someone looks at the absurdity that they had to go through.

While angry and distressed by repeated absurdities, the driving force behind work and life comes from the imagination of a better world. Even as small as a needle, the author's willingness to expose the illusion, prosecute and move the world through the practice of change that can clearly be made with his own power makes it possible. The author imagines that Utopia would be exactly like that if any solidarity is possible between those who are showing off their inner selves and bluffing. This imagination is ideal, but it is impossible to shake off the sense of despair that is coming, predicting the reality that it cannot be achieved and the pain that will be repeated in the future.

If you do something bad for a long time, you get callus on your skin. This is the hand of a person who has been sewing for a long time. It was made by changing flesh to cope with repeated external forces. The callus is a record of a kind of desperate protest that the author has gained by repeating the best means of attack against the absurdities in the relationship. A series of tasks does not actively destroy or dismantle the screen in which they are expressed, while morphologically distorting and transforming the objects and situations they want to represent. In other words, you can put your work under the control of the artist to some extent while expressing your feelings. Work done with control and ablation enables the continuation of repetitive performance. Created by a small but wonderfully repetitive collection of obsessive movements, the exhibition now shows the will of change that persevere and acknowledge the anger that is inherent in our lives as the default.

The author shows what a face looks like to those who have been struck and bumped into in a relationship, who have been dull or forced to stop with a lump in their mind. At the same time, it makes you look back on what kind of face you have, raising and evoking awareness. The exhibition <Intertwined Complexity> is a small but sharp force that can be produced with a united mind, and a power to pierce and penetrate and change the gap between obstacles in front of us.|Kim Myung-ji

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