Installation view of “Burn Your Heart” ©2024 ARARIO MUSEUM
ARARIO
MUSEUM in SPACE presents “Burn Your Heart”, a solo exhibition of Jisan Ahn,
through April 6, 2025. This exhibition, composed entirely of new works, marks Ahn’s
first solo show in two years.
Ahn
constantly explores the feelings of anxiety and desire that lurk within human
beings and projects them into specific situations that he sets up. The artist,
who has been focusing on natural landscapes such as clouds, rocky mountains and
snowstorms for a while, brings urban people to the fore in this exhibition.
Installation view of “Burn Your Heart” ©2024 ARARIO MUSEUM
The artworks depict somber and shadowy
backgrounds, faces concealed by masks and synthetic wigs, broken guitars,
withered flowers clutched in hands, and snake-like forms of bodies curled into
circles, all revealing the latent fears and anxieties of modern life.
As those involved in the incident or those
around them, the viewer will be able to relate to the emotions and situations
of the figures in the work and have the opportunity to reflect on the reality
of constantly trying and striving to find and hold on to something, but ending
up trapped in the shackles of life.
Installation view of “Burn Your Heart” ©2024 ARARIO MUSEUM
Jisan Ahn (b. 1979) graduated from the
Department of Fine Art at the Korea National University of Arts with a
bachelor's degree and got his master’s degree at the Department of Fine Art at
the Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands. He has held solo exhibitions
at Hapjungjigu (2016), Zaha Museum (2017), Arario Gallery (2021), Galerie Bart (2023).
Ahn also participated in a number of group
exhibitions, including exhibitions held at the Art Rotterdam (2014), Daegu Art
Museum (2017), Kunsthalle Münster (2018), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (2020),
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Cheongju (2020). He
participated in the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
in 2013-14 and won the Buning Brongers Prijzen, Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2014.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
