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작성일 : 21-03-29 07:43
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Artist statement for "In a foreign land"(20 Mar-10 Apr 2021)
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Statement for Group Exhibition, “In A Foreign Land”. Curated by Chunggang Du. At E-HIVE Gallery, Melbourne (20 March-10 April 2021)
I do not like doing just illustrations of an idea. Instead, I want to represent a critical relationship to the idea. Rather than copying the real world, I try to engage my own life into my practice and this is the way I interpret the society. So the subject is always “I”- “I” who is currently living in Australia as an Asian immigrant artist.
Australia gives me a lot of freedom. Although that is not to say that my native country- South Korea- do not have freedom. As a matter of fact, there is an excessive amount of freedom in South Korea as a result of my own generation’s protest against long time military dictatorship. Yet I still have difficulties in thinking and expressing without self-censorship. This censorship has been seeded in my mind from birth, maybe earlier..from my father's generation. In contrast, I feel entirely liberated from self-censorship in Australia. However, this blissful freedom is not without the sense of deepest isolation from the mainstream. Strangely enough, my current practice relies on these two things -freedom and isolation, lightness and weight, good and evil, “I” and “The Other”, enemy and friend, such a dichotomy forms the foundation to proceed my contemplation in art making.
For me, painting is always full of enigma.
-Shin Jaedon
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