​A Look Inside Kim cham sae
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Park Soon-young (culture and arts planner, aesthetics)



Artist Kim's work comes with a bright, cheerful, colorful, and calm feeling. The picturesque shapes and colors of a rather young child give visual pleasure and bring out pure sensibility. However, looking at the title of the exhibition, "Anxiety and Conflict", I can't erase the idea that it conflicts with these bright images of the artist. Of course, the artist's intention and the viewer's appreciation need not match. However, we will have to look closely at the images she expressed in order to hold the artist's hands.



"Anxiety and Conflict" is a story about the artist himself, and it can be seen as a kind of gesture to meet others by expressing one's inner self. The works of this exhibition can be divided into three main categories: the work that expresses one's inner self, the figures of others looking elsewhere, and the installation work that invites the artist to his room filled with the motif of the work.

When looking at the artist's inner work, which is composed of a rather elegant form, first of all, the artist faces his inner emotions that wriggle while bumping into each other. At the same time, he presses the anxiety caused by the other's inner side and tries to gaze clearly at it by himself, then calmly calms the movements of both sides and embodies them as images. Then, he goes through the process of finding colors, lines, and shapes that match the images he encountered to express his outer surface, that is, the canvas. After that, he eventually draws the images he encountered and distinguished from within so that they fit accurately with his own eyes. The images arranged on the canvas are bright and cheerful, as mentioned earlier, as shapes expressed within the artist, but this stems from the habit of reading a kind of idea or image we have. The red-painted shape that looks like a flower is not actually a flower, but an image that embodies a sharp state of mind that is difficult for the artist to encounter. In this regard, can it be said that it is simply a mismatch between content and form. The harder the artist's emotional state is, the sharper the appearance expressed and the more intense the color becomes, and our heads arbitrarily sharpness becomes a thin line, and the intensity is read as a colorful color. Rather, it can be said that we arbitrarily matched the discrepancy between what we see and what we want to see. In fact, this happens frequently in everyday life. When we face an object, person, or even situation, we habitually generalize it to impressions imprinted on our own experiences. Since there is a tendency to conceptualize and organize experiences or phenomena arbitrarily, even diverse and undefined personalities are systematized and patterned. For example, there is a distinction between normal and abnormal, which is often done. We prematurely attach the word abnormal to people who show other behaviors or behaviors. The awareness of the problem can be related to other work groups of the artist.

The artist draws the images of others looking elsewhere. It is a story of a social custom that distinguishes normal from abnormal. Six people in different fashion and appearance have different facial colors, unique hairstyles, and even some have two heads, but they all look elsewhere without fail. They seem to be sitting somewhat upright to take a picture, but they seem to be avoiding because their eyes are not facing the front. The artist says that not everyone is normal. In real life, it is certainly like that, but in the painting, it seems somewhat friendly. Although the artist collects characters she has seen in scribbled or dreams, unlike social prejudice, she had no distinction between abnormalities or normalities in the first place. Come to think of it, their eyes look different. It is not their eyes to look elsewhere. They did not avoid their eyes, but rather, their social gaze was distorted.



In this exhibition, you can see installations based on the artist's room. No, you can experience it. The bedroom is also the source of the work along with the artist's mind. She faces confused emotions under the cozy blanket in a dark room, and she has doubts about this heterogeneous emotional state that occurs at the same time and recommends us to experience it. If the picture transferred to the canvas is an emotion of confusion, the reproduced room can be said to be an expression of warmth. She recreates the emotions she encountered in the bedroom with the sun-dried cotton 'smell', 'darkness' full of night energy, and 'sound' made to match the atmosphere. In the dark room, the inner images she would have encountered at the time are drawn, and we face them one by one while illuminating them with a flashlight. In such a situation, we will experience some anxiety, conflict, and relief, and these encounters will be a kind of aesthetic experience.



The reason why Kim chamsae drew inner emotions where anxiety and conflict were antagonized is 'curious'. She says she drew and recorded it as a non-scientific art out of curiosity about how various invisible emotions affect an individual's life, behavior, and growth. When it comes to the inside, it can be an emotion, a memory, or an unknown unconsciousness. Sometimes you want to think about it, erase it, or you can be angry or happy. It's not something I can reveal, so it ultimately helps, but it is common to cause pain. The artist must have spent a lot of time focusing on herself, struggling, relieving, and refocusing to reveal her unwilling inner self. I think what we should do here is to let go of our prejudices for a while, to empathize with the image itself, and to look inside ourselves and substitute, so that we can have a beautiful encounter while making eye contact with her invitation.

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