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EVENT DESCRIPTION
Hejum Bä ’s first solo exhibition at MASSIMODECARLO Hong Kong bears a provocative title – a nod to the viral Korean internet meme – I want to buy unseen eyes – referencing the constant stream and influx of content we consume in the digital age, whether we intend it or not. These thoughts, feelings, and emotions are laid down on canvas as a response to the artist’s perceptiveness.
Hejum’s paintings are not mere random arrangements of lines and colour fields. Rather, they represent a meticulous dissection and abstraction of the peculiarities of our contemporary experiences. Living in Seoul, and working in Gangnam district, also known as the financial heart of the city, Hejum Bä looks and listens at what surrounds her. To the artist, the seeming schizophrenia of modern life is neither foreign nor bizzare, but rather a familiar muse.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Hejum Bä was born in Seoul in 1987. She lives and works in Seoul, KR. Hejum practice aims to convert the vocabularies of abstract painting into the indices of crypticity of some aspects of today’s communication, which are manifested in the frequent use of digital devices. Bä colour-field abstraction maps out our changing position towards various types of images, and their circulation as a form of information. Hejum considers painting the measuring scale of our relationships with the digital sphere, in an attempt to mobilize its elements as visually semantic values, by placing atypical shapes and primary colours in specific structural relations. By running the dynamics of shapes and colors she seeks to render a chain of cryptic meanings. As curator Eunjun Lee synthesizes: “Hejum Bä’s paintings can be anything at all and remain an elusive mystery. Nevertheless, they open up the world within us and prompt us to wonder whence the forms in our first crayon drawings came. And the answer remains a riddle”. Graduated from Ewha Women’s University’s Painting/Printmaking program (Seoul) and received her diploma at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design she is now enrolled in the Practice-based Research Program at Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany) while working in Seoul.Details
- Start:
- 10 July 2024
- End:
- 24 August 2024
- Admission:
- Free
- Event Category:
- Painting