I M ART is pleased to present a group exhibition under the title of from the 17th of December till the 30th of January 2010 with Kim Jihyun, Kim Soyeon, Kong Shine, Noh Jun-gu, Park Ju young, Chang Yujung, Cha Young-seok and Hyun A.

Living in structural and formal time zone of contemporary society, most of us are led by the strict demands of diaries and timetables. The social time zone provides us with wisdom of age and profession, but it does not necessarily correspond to each individual’s emotional time zone. In fact, outside the public, social and relational circles, most of “us” are faced with the private selves, inexperienced and fragile ego. From this point of view, an old Arabic saying, probably taken from the scene of a camel trailing along the desert burdened by the weight, signifies one’s tasks in the past, present and the future. This exhibition demonstrates comprehensive and detailed stories on the subject matter through approaches and medium of each participating artists, which are painting, drawing and photography.

Through puns in her work’s titles, Kong Shine‘s work implies artist’s positive message of self-healing, healing wounds from the past. Today, she brings out the past and shows how human’s constant internal conflicts are getting healed through natural objects. Kim Jihyun asks, what if kindness of a lover, generosity of friends, and protection of family were suddenly an illusion, or did not exist at all or turned into something cruel? She starts her work from such personal and public perspectives. She renders an altered reality and the souls that could not accept such reality.

Kim Soyeon’s drawing works have both narrative and non-narrative qualities. In her work, only diverse scope of emotions and situations exist cumulatively. Responding emotionally, her work reveals her personal thoughts with enigmatic imagination with no suggestion of any presumption or conclusion. Noh Jun-gu begins his work with everyday scenes. He depicts an ordinary scene of a couple, the very banal and daily activities and from that, he envisages universal characteristics of men and women topped with care and love. Park Ju young attempts to reflect on some series of experiences as a record of events. Looking inside her archives as if rummaging her old library, she reminisces what was once dear to her. Cha Young-seok discovers rather crude and bizarre aesthetics (-tactility) from his collections originated form his personal fancies and he produces still-life drawings of personal desire reflected and of Korean subject matters that changes according to social phenomenon.

Instead of judging what’s real and what’s false, Chang Yujung renders the process of accepting the ambiguous boundary of actuality and fabricated reality as part of life. Instead of emphasizing the gaps between the antithetical logics of truth and reality, Hyun A attempts to challenge the limit and the possibility of double meanings’ co-existence beyond the superficially constructed boundary within the photographic medium.

Through this group exhibition, I M ART will present the viewers an opportunity of a courageous and truthful contemplation with oneself. In everyday lives rapidly circulating under the mechanical and physical time zone, the viewer will have a chance to fathom the time zone of your soul and its pace.