내숭 : 나르시스

'나르시스'는 그리스 신화에 등장하는 물 속에 비친 자신을 사랑하다 죽은 소년의 이름에서 유래되었습니다. 화장은 어떤 이유에서 이러한 집중력을 발휘하게 되는 것일까. 화장은 아름다움을 향한 본능의 발로일까. 그러나 남보다 예뻐지려는 마음, 혹은 남에게 잘 보이기 위해서만은 아닐 것이다. 심리학자들은 여성이 화장하는 이유를 이렇게 푼다. 사람들이 젊음과 아름다움을 유지하려는 자아 보존 욕구, 남에게 주목 받고 싶어 하는 욕망, 유행을 좇는 모방욕구, 변화 추구 등의 이유로 화장을 한다고 한다. 누군가에게 잘 보이고 싶은 마음도 분명히 있지만 가장 잘 보이고 싶은 사람은 본인이 아닐까.

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."