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The main interest of my work is based on a long history of human violence against the weak, especially women, and the study of its root. The works are related to the situations that drive the weak to a dead-end and its complete destruction in which the strong has a dominant control over the weak. The initial interest came from my personal experiences such as how the corporate hires workers under low-income and high-efficiency to boost their profits, and how men use their physical and social strength, restraining and using violence against women.
At 'Daughters' (Solo exhibition, 2011), I’ve created a crowd of girl figure statues with holes in their eyes in which incense is burning, in remembrance of the sexually abused children victims. From mid-2013 to late 2015, I’ve created a series of McJob sculptures which mentions disposable labor, all made by sacks of McDonald’s french fries, secretly collected by myself while working there. A performance ' A girl programmed to self-destruct, at the end ' (Performance, May, 2015) shows misogynism that is prevalent in Korean society, and 'bee-shil-kee-shil-kee-shil'(Installation, December, 2015) is a site-specific work that deals with the ridiculousness of the institutional Korean art education entrance examination system in which my drawings blot all plaster casts out that I found in an abandoned art academy.
The most recent and representative work is McJob sculptures, made by sacks of McDonald’s french fries. At first, McDonald’s was simply my income source to survive, but as I’ve been swept away in the corporate’s inhuman system, I started to secretly collected french fries sacks. And they’ve become the materials of my work to show the hyper-reasonable-price of products, cheap labors, and the gap between the rich and poor. The reason why I’ve used the sacks of french fries is because the addictiveness and unescapableness of fries’ taste is a perfect metaphor for my generation who can’t escape from poverty although they are working for the world’s biggest corporations. This series has gained a lot of social, political, and media attention in Korea.
Currently, I am working on studying a biological root of war and sex, and as a part of it, I am researching Korean sex slaves under Japanese colonization during WW2. 'Sex and War' (Malcolm Potts and Thomas Haden, 2010) takes an evolutionary approach that deals with the men’s sexual jealousness, a common reason of human violence. The authors says that the men and women’s specific behaviors related to sex and violence are varied depending on the situations, but also insist that they are on genes. Far from dichotomously saying that men are meant to be aggressive and women are not, I’m rather more interested in the root of war and violence, and the biological approach to it that how living things are programmed, female’s role in the system, how repetitive the human history is, and what we can do to change it, from a broader aspect.
Education
2013 Hong-ik University, Mechanical System Design, Bachelor’s degree, Seoul, KOREA
Solo Exhibition
2017 No! Space Dimension variable, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2017 demo Space 413, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2017 IAP PLATFORM ARTIST PRIZE-The People Of Paper, IAP, SOUTH KOREA
2015 Inhale, Exhale, And STAY. ,Toy republic, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2015 a girl programmed to self-destruct, at the end, Barim, Kwangju, SOUTH KOREA
2015 The Gigantic Golden Arch, Seogyo art center, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2014 We’re all made of_______, Ium Art Space, Ulsan, SOUTH KOREA
2014 We’re all made of_______, place MAK, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2011 Daughters, place MAK, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2010 panic toy kids, place MAK, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Group Exhibition
2017 IAP platform artist, Incheon, SOUTH KOREA
2016 [A.N.D Thearter X SHIN MIn]collaboration project, Incheon art platform, Incheon, SOUTH KOREA
2016 wet paint, Incheon art platform, Incheon, SOUTH KOREA
2015 play back residency, Barim, Kwangju, SOUTH KOREA
2015 SDU competiton, SDU, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2015 Crazy jeon, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2015 open to you, openspce bae, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
2014 BUSAN ART SHOW artowns, BEXCO, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
2012 NEW YORK ART SHOW 2012 for young artist, gallery Shinhan, New York, USA
2010 horror picture show, gallery door, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Lectures
2016 paper sculpture calss, Namincheon girls' middle school, Incheon, SOUTH KOREA
2015 paper sculpture class, Barim, Kwangju, SOUTH KOREA
2015 origami sculpture class, Toy republic, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Publications
2016 Inhale, Exhale, and STAY, exhibition catalogue, daughter nose, SOUTH KOREA
2012-2015 origami camera, monthly zine , daughter nose, SOUTH KOREA
2013 Puppet home, artist book, daughter nose, SOUTH KOREA
2012 Nuns, artist book, daughter nose, SOUTH KOREA
2012 Daughters, artist book, daughter nose, SOUTH KOREA
Articles
2018 Kim Yura, No review, Feb, Monthly Art Magazine
2015 Hangook newspaper, May 21, p 24
2015 Koreaherald newspaper, Jan 26, p 17
2014 Hangyorae newsmagazine, no.1025, Aug, p 88-89
2014 Laborplus, monthly magazine, Oct, p 36-39
2014 Monthly art, magazine, Sep, p 72
Broadcasts
2015 MBC News desk, Jun 2, SOUTH KOREA
2014 Money today news interview, Aug 17, SOUTH KOREA
Reviews
2018 Kim Yura, No review, Feb, Monthly Art Magazine
2015 Lee moon-sok, Inhale, Exhale, and STAY review, Aug, Indien-bob
2014 Juen kang-hul, We’re all made of review, Sep, Indien-bob
Awards
2017 PLATFORM ARTIST PRIZE, IAP, SOUTH KOREA
2016 The 4th Red awards, labor party, SOUTH KOREA
Grants
2016 support fund for the project, IFAC, SOUTH KOREA
2015 support fund for the project, KAMS, SOUTH KOREA
2015 support fund for the project, SFAC, SOUTH KOREA
2014 support fund for the project, SFAC, SOUTH KOREA
2014 support fund for the project, SFAC, SOUTH KOREA
2011 support fund for the project, ARKO, SOUTH KOREA
Residencies
2021 Seoul Art Space Guemcheon, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2017 K'ARTS studio, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2016 Incheon art platform, Incheon, SOUTH KOREA
2015 Barim, Kwangju, SOUTH KOREA
2013-2015 Seoul art space in Sindang, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
contact
www.cargocollective.com/daughternose
about my artwork text link
http://cargocollective.com/daughternose/About-my-Artwork
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http://cargocollective.com/daughternose/BIOGRAPHY
Part-Timers Doing Downward-Facing Dog Pose
2014, Sacks of McDonald's french fries, colored pencil, boxes, polystyrene, 308x200x153cm
The Gigantic Golden Arch
2015, trash from McDonalds,140X70X253cm
2020, pencil on woodblock, 20x16cm
