Ilmin Museum of Art’s “IMA Picks” is a project exhibition that selects and showcases three notable artists in the current art scene, either from Korea or abroad, to explore the different ways in which the artists interpret today’s world. A work of art is not only the product of a particular artist’s aesthetics, sensibilities, and personal experience, but also a communal experiential object that is informed by sociopolitical, geopolitical, and technological contexts.

With Eunsae Lee (b.1987), Hong Seung Hye (b.1959), and Yun Suknam (b.1939) as invitees, 《IMA Picks 2021》 tracks the forms embodied within their work and explores anew the world we face today through the gaze of the three women artists who bring the experiences of their respective generations.

The three artists take the logic of the plane as the artistic basis for their work and liberally apply three-dimensional forms, installations, or occasionally, forms that spring from the characteristics of relation or temporality. As women artists who are attuned to the minute “discomforts” of being positioned outside of art history framed in the language of a clichéd mainstream, their work incorporate elements such as the deployment of objects based on pictorial imagination, the implementation of the design or architectural structures, the expansion of media into digital media and performance, fluid forms of collaboration, and reorientation of the genre through the effects of materials used—introduces a methodology and attitude that challenges the expectations of their time, confronting and troubling it. Ilmin Museum of Art’s 《IMA Picks 2021》 hopes to shed light on the diverse arenas of understanding and exploration made available through these trajectories and to highlight the generation-defying contemporaneous sensibility that these artists share, whether consciously or unconsciously.

References

• 일민미술관 (Ilmin Museum of Art)