Ji Hye Yeom

SHOW: All Moving Images Studies for Images

『The Last Night』 Book
『마지막 밤』 책
2024

『Ji Hye Yeom, The Last Night』 is intended to be an experience of independent readings by various authors, and also amplified by their interlocking effects with the moving image work, The Last Night. As the title suggests, The Last Night is an apocalypse of today that reveals the form of a final night that has yet to arrive. Through its images, which look for signs of catastrophe among the obvious, the six contributors to this book reflect on the final hour that has not arrived.
한국어판 목차
5. <이 세상의 서스펜스>, 김홍기
21. <리-선셋 Re-Sunset>, 천선란
33. <애도의 시간>, 최유미
51. <종말론적 수행성>, 김홍중
63. <에필로그: 마지막 밤>, 구나연
1–76. <(확대한) 마지막 밤>, 민구홍

Studies for Symptoms (Series)
징후 습작 (연작)
2024
Oil, acrylic, acrylic medium, and mixed media on canvas
65.1 x 53.0 cm

Studies for the Last Night
마지막 밤 습작
2023
Oil on canvas
162.2 x 130.3 cm

Apocalypse conjures up images of catastrophe, like the end of the world, but its etymology includes revealing the hidden, and exposing secrets. This painting is a representation of the heart as it is, as if the grease on the heart has been apocalysed off with a skimmer, lifting the veil of a ravaged mind. My focus was on exploring contemporary emotional states such as depression and anxiety, potential future scenarios, and historical and symbolic concepts of apocalypse.

Studies for Fire (Series)
불 습작 (연작)
2023~2024
Oil on canvas
Various size

Drawing
드로잉
2022~2024
Watercolor on paper
Various size

Oysters
오이스터
2021
Poster
Various size

“Take Oysters, As You Like!”

Oyster is a work in the form of a disseminatable poster containing factors such as prototypes, motives, questions, and materials of the previous videos. This work, symbolically mirroring the flexibility of the invertebrate oyster, becomes a catalyst that disperses, mutates, and expands through the hands of the audience.

Fortitude (Series)
용기 (연작)
2021
Tempera on canvas
116.8 x 91.0 cm

I drew a magnified part of Pieter Brueghel’s print Fortitude on a canvas and painted it with tempera. Since tempera is an egg-based pigment, the canvas would be sensitive and acutely vulnerable to environmental factors, having marks of weathering, dissolving, drying, and cracking on its surface. Such changes by the chemical reaction of the pigment manifest a dynamic vitality, which could be seen as another version with another medium of what I would normally do with digital moving images to display their movement dramatically through rhythmic editing.

Studies for Fortitude (Series)
용기 습작 (연작)
2021
Tempera on canvas
65.1 x 53.0 cm