The Jeonju exhibition of Park Jin-hee's art exhibition, <Soon It Will Fade>, will be held from the 17th to the 27th at Plan C in Hanok Village.
As the title <Soon It Will Fade> suggests, this exhibition draws from the deep wrinkles of mothers the time of life that spreads, permeates, and settles. Based on 12 years of activity in Jeju since leaving Jeonju in 2013, the exhibition reveals the artist's unending questions through her works.
Since leaving her hometown of Jeonju for Jeju Island in 2013, Park Jin-hee has been deeply observing the region and working to understand its foundation. She has continued various field activities through Tammihyup, Women's Association, and Sangsang Changgo Ssum, including <Living Brushwork> (Women's Art 2015-2018), the 4.3 Art Festival (2016-2024), <Perhaps Forgotten Landscape> (4.3 Painting Collection 2018), A.C.E. Women Artists Network (2019-2022), <The Scenery to Come> (Jeju, Jeonju Women's Art Festival 2021-2022), and Maeul Art Academy (Coastal Village Elders 2016-2023).
She has focused on re-examining the things that were taken for granted and listening to various voices through the gaps in the unseen. While continuing the patterns of life in Jeju into a place of questioning and reflection, she has also unfolded the voice of a woman's subjective life towards a life of living together.
This exhibition features works that bring the voices of the field to the forefront, approaching the lives of mothers in the coastal village who have continued their relationship with her in Jeju, like the North Star, and engraving them with needlework on Dongmang.
The emotions trapped in their throats while going through the Japanese colonial period, the 4.3 incident, and the war, and the times they had to endure with their whole bodies. The exhibition tries to deeply look at the time of mothers who have continued their lives on top of death. It unlocks the gate of flattened conventional wisdom and customs, unfolds the layers of wrinkles, and contains the message that daily life becomes a narrative and eventually history.
The materials of Park Jin-hee's work are Dongmang and thread. She sews metal like hemp cloth. And while drawing the wrinkled hands with seawater on Dongmang, the unseen water shadows gradually become clearer and reveal the story with the color of the sea. She incorporates the process of being metallic, living, organic, and flexible into her work.
The works that you will encounter in this Park Jin-hee solo exhibition include <Face_Flower>, which has been recording the expressions of mothers' hands and symbolizing them as portraits of mothers by drawing them with seawater on Dongmang. <Your Time>, which engraves the power of care and labor, <The 서사 of Veiled Tears>, which writes, cuts, folds, and calls out the stories of mothers with comfort on Dongmang, <The Song of Flesh>, where the song of the wrinkles between your bent index finger becomes the breath and eventually becomes our blood vessels, and <Dance of Activity>, which reveals the Wonsam, which was worn when you were happiest in your life and was said to be wrapped around your whole body when you die, as a wing suit.
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