Kwon Youngjin
Beautiful, vulnerable and sad...
White is the color of life for Kwon.
White is nothing, but it's also infinite.
It is a perfect being.
"Albinism" has become an attractive motif that symbolizes its "white"and
has become the driving force behind the story by apearing frequently in Kwon's works."
Kwon uses "albinism" as a motif in her work, expressing the “difference”of individual thoughts not simply in it’s appearance.
By placing conflicting subjects on one screen, the artist finds strong vitality that comes from the
contradictions of similar but yet different beings, the beginning and end, and the boundary between life and death.
(the concept of a works)
The nervous cicada falls into the water with an iron clang, and The red thorns stuck in their fingernails never stop crying
The little bird, frozen, gasps for breath
Wondering flowers ever bloom again from the ripped wounds...
(from the artist’s note)
Biography
1977 born in south Korea
live and work in Japan(gujohachiman)
Exhibition
2022 ArtKobe“a gallery of 28rooms”, hotel kitano plaza rokkoso,(Kobe)
2022 AnyKobe with Arts 2022,(Kobe)
2022 “Gujo Art Exhibition”, machiyaechizenya,(Gujo)
2022 ENERGY of Japan in Paris, Galerie SATELLITE,(Paris,France)
2022 Independent Tokyo 2022,(Tokyo)
2022 SICF23 ,Wacoal Art Center,(Tokyo)
2021 MINIart exhibition,gallery2511,(Tokyo)
2021 “Art meets Arts”,machiyaechizenya,(Gujo)
2021 Engawa marche,nakashimaya ryokan, solo exhibition,(Gujo)
2021 intersection vol.11 gallery#1010,(Nagoya)
2019 Machiya Oidenale,shop 4gastunomori, solo exhibition,(Gujo)
2017 “Public-public” ,chalk art,(seoul,Korea)
~2011 Studio J ,group exhibition,(Osaka)
2009 “bulonhan mereuk” alternativespace Chugjunggak,(Seoul,Korea)
2009 “1/2 seconds before flying”, solo exhibition,(Tokyo)
2007 “kinpastunoMsan”, solo exhibition, (Osaka)
Awards history
2022 placed at AnyKobe conpertation2022
2022 ENERGY of Japan in Paris, participation prize
2022 Independent Tokyo 2022, special award for judge
