Junglim Han Exhibition
Contemporary Arts and Spirits
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In her 2014 exhibition “Weaving Dreams”, Junglim Han portrayed dreams as a drifting illusion. In her 2015 show “Hidden in Slumber”, she visualized dreams by creating a collage of related fragments and images found in everyday lives. Now in this 2016 exhibition “A Room of Her Own”, Han takes inspiration from a 2015 drawing to create a more detailed image of femininity from the perspective of beauty and brevity.
By sharing her room – one that is intimate, restrictive, and invisible – in an open form, she attempts to transform a sacred chamber into an entirely new universe. Through the interaction between the desires of “me” and “others”, one can experience a sense of connection, warmth, intensity and longing. Han chose cage crinolines because of the different meanings hidden in their ornamental silhouette, which can be viewed as an exaggerated form of physical beauty. In the mid-19th century, women wearing crinolines could keep men at a certain distance, making themselves unapproachable. In this sense, crinolines embodied a form of protection. On one hand, the bell-shaped skirt is symbolic of female oppression, but on the other, it (perhaps paradoxically) represents liberation. Conflicting values of virtue and promiscuity coexist. The exaggerated, artificial, glamorous garment is a symbol of ultimate femininity. Here, femininity refers to submissiveness, virtue, chastity, delicacy, vulnerability, sensuality, and fertility.
Junglim Han recreates this inconvenient yet mesmerizing object, fascinated by its image as a beautiful shackle. In a sense, the willingness to sacrifice comfort for beauty has many parallels with today’s women. The secretive power and desire concealed in the crinoline reveals itself in the wearer’s dignity. Viewers are invited to make their own interpretation of this enigmatic object.
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Date: Oct.29 (Sat) From 17:00
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from 10月 29, 2016 at 14:00 to 11月 12, 2016 at 19:00
Closed on Mondays and Thursdays.
Opening Reception on 2016-10-29 from 17:00