Exhibition Information

			The 021 Gallery will hold a private exhibition "The Hunter's Mail" by Kim Young-jae from January 7 to February 24, 2021.
The writer uses various media such as sculptures to compare the story of survival in modern society and survival as a writer to hunters and prey.
In this exhibition, the artist uses two methods, flat and three-dimensional, with slaughtered meat as the theme, to show the hunter's need for meat that requires the artist's artistic style, the work that the public wants, and the meat that the art market wants to eat.


author's notebook
If there is a hunter who has been starving for days due to a series of failed hunting, what he wants most is fresh meat, not a big head or a nice horn.
The third task so far has been to discuss the economic activities of modern people compared to hunting and our lives bound within that framework. It depicts the form of life pursued by the winners of the struggle for survival beyond the problem of eating and living, and depicts the relationship between hunters, prey and sculptors about the priority values faced by modern capitalism.
What does "survival" mean in today's Korean life, where the possibility of starvation has diminished, and what is the value we care about and what we are driven into a fierce and infinite competition?
Due to the development of livestock industry, humans no longer need hunters to obtain meat, and the "meat" that is supplied by artificial systems from birth to death for a purpose is clearly different from the meat obtained through hunting activities in a natural system called the "ecosystem".
The 4th Hunter's Mail is an exhibition based on the theme of slaughtered meat in two ways: flat and solid. Artistic artistry pursued by artists, works sought by the public, and dissonance created by art market are connected to the situation of hunters who need slaughtered meat.
As a sculptor who can only succeed in hunting by standing at a vague boundary between products and works, what is needed most is not a gun that can hunt, but a meat that can be eaten to the full. even if that's not the result of intense hunting.