JIHI South Korean, b. 1987

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JIHI

South Korean artist JIHI creates mixed media images on panel which, at first glance, seem to be simple, graffiti-like characters. These humble forms combine to create an allegory full of highly implicit symbols. Utilising this light and bright formative language, she explores the heavy theme of lonely human alienation and crooked social reality.

Complex concepts of personal interaction are reduced to symbols and patterns, a dialogue of colour and form. The worlds portrayed in these spaces echo with contemporary communication; shapes relay and repeat one another as if in conversation. They are functional and impersonal. Narrative is inferred and imagination aroused through short segments of text amongst the repeated symbols. Amorphous patterns of block colour cluster and disperse, as though reacting to the symbols as a person to a text message.

 

Allusions to the work of Keith Haring and contemporary pop art can be felt, as JIHI carves an immediately distinctive alphabet of fluid symbols to convey her messages. We ask ourselves if these works are an insightful critique of modern interaction, or a celebration of connectivity.

 

 

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Works
  • Feeling
    Feeling, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    117 x 91 cm
    46 x 35 7/8 in
  • Group
    Group, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    117 x 91 cm
    46 x 35 7/8 in
  • Keypoint
    Keypoint, 2022
    Oil on panel
    162 x 130 cm
    63 3/4 x 51 1/8 in
  • Needs_1
    Needs_1, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    53 x 45.5 cm
    20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
  • Needs_10
    Needs_10, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    53 x 45.5 cm
    20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
  • Needs_2
    Needs_2, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    53 x 45.5 cm
    20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
  • Needs_4
    Needs_4, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    53 x 45.5 cm
    20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
  • Needs_5
    Needs_5, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    53 x 45.5 cm
    20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
  • Needs_7
    Needs_7, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    53 x 45.5 cm
    20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
  • Page
    Page, 2021
    Oil on panel
    117 x 91 cm
    46.1 x 35.8 in
  • Starry Night (Diptych)
    Starry Night (Diptych), 2021
    Oil on panel
    162 x 260 cm
    64 x 102.5 in
  • Bright Smile
    Bright Smile, 2020
    Oil on panel
    162 x 130 cm
    63.8 x 51.2 in
  • Celebrity
    Celebrity, 2020
    Oil on panel
    162 x 130 cm
    63.8 x 51.2 in
  • What's Your Color?
    What's Your Color?, 2020
    Oil on panel
    130 x 162 cm
    51.2 x 63.8 in
  • Wannabe
    Wannabe, 2019
    Oil on panel
    112 x 145.5 cm
    44.1 x 57.3 in
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