‘DUALITY’
As I always focus on the quality and meaning of duality, each of the colors in the spectrum has a room in my heart. When I am using a certain color, I always remind myself of the opposite emotions a color contains. For example, the color white can mean void, or no color, but also is a mixture of all the colors in the light spectrum. I am intrigued by the hesitation of human nature, and ambivalence when approaching something. This is why I tend to calibrate each color with its complimentary color when I paint – to express the duality of human emotion. What’s important to me about beni-iro is that it can mean passion but violence at the same time, it can be love, and blood at the same time. I love how beni-iro is closely tied to both positive and negative connotations, and shows the inevitability paradox of duality. As I use beni-iro yarn and thread, I always come back to the story of ‘red thread of fate’. I love the vulnerability of human to the inevitable fate and destiny. I also love the human instinct of hating someone even if you try not to, and loving someone after trying so much not to. I use beni-iro yarn and colors in my works to express the coexistence of opposite emotions and circumstances. In the Diary Project: Part two, an installation of canvases that occupy all planes of a room, crimson red is the color I used the most.
JinHee Kim: 韓国・ソウルに拠点を置くアーティスト。 北京で育ち、シカゴのThe Art Institute of Chicagoで絵画の美術学士号を取得。 2018年5月には、アメリカ ミズーリ州・セントルイスにあるワシントン大学のSam Fox School of Design and Visual Artsで修士号を取得した。 鮮やかな色彩により生み出される作品は、さまざまな感情が描かれたような、不思議な雰囲気に包まれている。 www.jinheekimart.com/