Kim Jee-Yun: m < other >

EVENT DESCRIPTION

A portion of exhibition proceeds will go to Mother’s Choice.

Soluna Fine Art is proud to present m<other>, the first solo exhibition of Hong Kong-based Korean photographer Kim Jee-Yun with the gallery. The exhibition features photographs and video work from Kim’s decade-long experiential documentary project, depicting children born to interracial marriages and their mothers.

The documentary project began with the artist’s personal storytelling about her intermarriage and mixed-race children. Since its inception in 2010, m<other> has been interested in racial awareness and perceptions towards child-mother’s different external appearances, and the development of self-representation in mixed-race teenagers after Kim’s child turned teen. Hong Kong, the city where the artist currently resides, is an intersection between the West and the East that simultaneously give rise to interracial families and concerns for their children’s identity, which varies depending on the age, level of education and the environment they grow up in. The complicated relations between individual attitudes and the sense of group position vary, and mixed-race teenagers, who begin to undergo emotional and societal development, further force us to consider between “descent” and “consent” about identity.

Through the collaboration between the artist and gallery, we are also pleased to donate ten percent of the exhibition sales towards Mother’s Choice, a local charity organization serving many children without families and pregnant teenagers in Hong Kong. Furthermore, this event will be sponsored by LG OLED.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Born in Korea and currently living in Hong Kong, Kim Jee-Yun (b. 1974) is a visual artist working mainly in Photography and Video. She holds BFA in Photography from Chung-Ang University in Korea and MA in Photography & Video Art from New York University in the USA. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Lowe Art Gallery, Dumbo Art Festival in New York, Total Museum, Seoul Museum of Art in Korea, Korean Center in China, and others. Kim is working on her current project, m<other>, a portrait of a mother and her mixed-child(en). Kim’s art-based research project depicts the racial stereotyping of the politics of interracial mixings and the rhetoric of motherhood and womanhood.