“Living in Joy” Installation view at Art Sonje Center ©Art Sonje Center Photo: Lee EuirockArt Sonje Center is presenting Living in Joy until June 25. A group exhibition featuring three artists Rondi Park(b.1993), Boma Pak(b.1988), and Hannah Woo(b.1988), this exhibition responds to the work of Heidi Bucher, which is on view in the same period and introduces the stories of artists who understand and are interested in today’s gender conditions and equality.
The three artists in the exhibition explore the possibilities of contemporary artistic production to create new perceptions, new changes, and new connections through their work, just as Heidi Bucher did when she broke away from the existing masculinist society and sought new values. The artists are all women in their 30s, and curator Chuz Martinez explains that the three artists “Share an interest in ‘Transformation,’ in being transformed and reborn, and a belief that the energy of intimacy and positivity can transform society.”
The exhibition features works such as Boma’s “The Soul of Wedding: About Eternity,” which depicts a tattered and crumbling Virgin Road as a motif of social structure, Hannah Woo’s installation made of fabric and female organs, and Rondi Park’s paintings, which depict modern people working obsessively through horses running across a long horizontal canvas and people sprawled on top of them.
The exhibition explores the ways in which art contributes to the essential experience of gender, and at the same time proposes “joy,” a common emotion that reaches out to others and the world, as a way to deeply care for the well-being of all of us.
