Feign : I’m a Woman

kimhyunjungAfter graduating from the prestigious Sunhwa Art Middle School and High School, she went onto studying oriental painting and business administration at Korea’s top university, Seoul University. There she graduated with the Class President Award and continued her studies to complete her master’s degree in oriental painting. After that, she was a lecturer at Anyang Art High School. Also she is a lecturer at a University and Company now. Then starting in 2014, she lead through four private exhibitions with the concept of Feign Story, which brought about an uproar of excitement as each exhibition was completely sold out and both Hyun-Jung, Kim and her work received a great deal of love from the public through the exhibitions as well as social media. And as each exhibition passed, each one had become a hot topic during its period. With such an original idea and concept, Hyun-Jung, Kim displayed expressive techniques that were considered “daring” and received attention as a rising star amongst Korean painters as she attempted to evolve the basic theories and techniques of authentic oriental painting. Following an exciting 2013, Hyun-Jung, Kim was again put in the spotlight in April of 2014 when she was selected by Dong-A Daily News as the only artist to make it on the list of the “hundred people who will make Korea shine in the next ten years”. And with emphasis on passion and experience, she was deemed an “idol of Korean painting” within the art world as she found new ways to spread Korean art’s “POP” to the regular public through social media. Through this, she now is receiving wide recognition as a contributor to the art world and in the history of art. The aim of her work in “Feign” line of work was to take the elegance and mysterious atmosphere of a hanbok, a traditional Korean attire, and to place it upon a person in an informal and everyday setting. But to do so isn’t a simple process. The artwork she makes goes through a process in which the subject is first drawn nude. Then the hanbok is handmade by manually dying traditional Korean paper called “hanji” and making a collage out of them on top of the nude picture. By making the hanbok this way, they become translucent, giving away the message that “we can see right through her."