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Participants | Jung-Hoo Kim
"An Inner Unity The presence and in hand the essence of Jung-Hoo Kim jewelry does not lie in it's sensory or aesthetic qualities alone. The figurative brooches linger with a sense of what is not understood rather than what is. A wisdom that seems to develop out of what is not tangible. She moves from traditional notions of allegory, having fairly exacting relations to meaning, to symbols, which are indeterminate and thus infinite. Psychological human image, which connect the visibly apparent with invisibly significant. As Ms. Kim has suggested she is interested in the paradox of the psychological dramas being worn and carried externally. Extended and perhaps exposed by the wearer, directly linking our ethos and our action. Ms. Kim vision is one where the wearer in fact becomes the compiler of the work, a participant in the making and the changing interpretation of the images. As the result we can begin to pursue the symbolic way the language of her jewelry works. How it is wedded to and completed by the wearer, and it turn it's form and content wedded to this artist's expression, a constant metaphorizing. A moving whole made up of interrelated parts, each being and determinate in the meaning and understanding of the work. In looking at these brooches it is difficult not to engage to ontological relationship between our own being, our existence and Kim's understanding of how her jewelry takes an analogous position. The tension of coexistence lies between form and essence, what is expressed and understood, what is apparent to what is infinite. One thing we do understand in Kim's work is that these are poetic and beautiful pieces, where these qualities become symbols of the morally good. Her use and choice of material; the rendering of the works; the fact that they are worn; are significant as she attempts to develop an inner unity of wearer and work."
Jamie Bennett / Professor at state University of New-York, New-Palatz. |
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