“Collecting Chamber” Installation view ©ThisWeekendRoomJiwon Choi (b. 1996) uses porcelain dolls to express the anxiety and numbness felt by her contemporaries. From March 3 to April 8, the artist will hold a solo exhibition, “Collecting Chamber” at ThisWeekendRoom in Yongsan-gu.
The exhibition includes works that combine porcelain dolls and artificial/natural objects, as well as works that are exclusively produced by artificial and natural objects. “Collecting Chamber” shows the meaning of the things collected in the artist’s room. She often looks at ornaments, porcelain dolls, cuckoo clocks, and dead insects on window sills.
These are mainly things that used to be alive, or imitations of living things. These objects, which are more real than living, are for her symbols of the fragility and beauty of life. The artist focuses on the form and meaning of these entities and creates mysterious objects in the surreal space she has compartmentalized for himself.
Jiwon Choi (b. 1996) graduated from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, and received her MFA from Same University.
