Kim Ja Hae

We essentially can't be sure what the world looks like. However, many people are convinced that we know exactly what the world looks like, and that what we see through our own eyes or through the eyes of modern mechanical media (cameras, screens, etc.) that replace our eyes is what the object actually looks like. The way we look at things geometrically is not how we see the world. This is because we look at the world and things ultimately with our minds, as individual subjective objects. We do not remember moments in the world we live in because the world we live in is never the same.

My work consists of artificial objects (buildings, machines, industrial products) that have a fixed absolute value and natural objects (trees, water, clouds) that are constantly changing. It is a question of what is real in the world we live in. The work is made up of layers. This layer serves to record moments. Also, layers create space other than the screen. By creating various layers based on various moments and differences in viewpoints, we try to remember moments as spaces. Layers exist across windows, doors, frames, and sometimes colors, and they are closely connected to each other. Moments of nature such as trees, grass, water, and sky are the most dynamic and flexible beings, and these moments of existence are translated into color on a two-dimensional screen. The work stops time and the moving moment is recorded in a multi-dimensional space where one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional elements come together.

Fluid nature appears in unexpected places, simple fields of color appear, and sometimes meaningless patterns appear. Time stops in a space that has become flat, and we see the world again on a frozen screen. The work makes spaces unfamiliar and transcends reality. By changing the world we live in into an unfamiliar space rather than a familiar landscape, it makes us see the current world differently. It makes the world around us more complex, more interesting and more mysterious than it appears. The boundaries of countless images are sometimes revealed as the boundaries of reality. The world we live in is not absolute, because the world is organic and constantly changing. Therefore, we must look at the world flexibly, break down the countless boundaries we have artificially created, and see the world unfolding in a variety of ways. The other world is revealed only after passing through a gate, and the picture serves as a gate to view that world.

CV

Education

2013   Graduated from the Department of Painting, Hongik University Graduate School

2009   Graduated from Hongik University, Department of Painting

Exhibition

2022   Chonnam National University Museum invitation exhibition-Walk into, Chonnam National University Museum/ Gwangju

2022   Cheongju City Daecheongho Art Museum Competition Selection Exhibition – Breathing Water: Collaboration Agreement, Daecheongho Art Museum, Cheongju

2021   MEET-UP ART FAIR, Colabo House Dosan, Seoul

2021   Gyeongnidan-gil ART&DESIGN FAIR, Seoul

2021   Art Lab Daejeon, Lee Ungno Art Museum, Daejeon

2021   Cello Art with Minumsa, Cello Art, Seoul

2021   RE-connect solo exhibition, Gallery IS, Seoul

2019   Gyeongui Line Chaekgeori-Connecting the Tracks, Gongshel, Seoul 2019. Hap(合)Jeong(井) The Blending of Time, Gongshel, Seoul

2018   Jahye Kim INVITED EXHIBITION, GS Tower The Street Gallery, Seoul

2018   DESIGN ART FAIR, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

2017   Spring Again Exhibition, Eco樂 Gallery, Seoul 2016. 3rd

Solo Exhibition

2016   Gallery ILHO, Seoul

2016   Drawing Project, Sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company Ecopeace Asia, China

2015   2015 Woomin Emerging Artist, Woomin Art Center, Cheongju

2015   Intersection Point Exhibition, SEDEC ART Gallery, Seoul

2015   Mom, Mom, Love Exhibition, Gallery ILHO, Seoul

2014   VCCA (Virginia center for creative artist) residency, USA

2014   2nd solo exhibition, Moire Gallery, Seoul

2014   ASYAF, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

2014   BREEZE art fair, Complex cultural space NEMO, Seoul

2014   ‘IN THE IN-BETWEEN’ 1st solo exhibition, Insa Art Center, Seoul

2013   ‘Small Masterpiece’ exhibition, Lotte Gallery, Seoul

2012   ASYAAF, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

2012   Hongik University Graduate School, Department of Painting, Master’s Degree Claim Exhibition, Hongik University Museum of Contemporary Art

Art owned by

Hungarian Embassy | Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office | Korea Water Resources Corporation collection of works | GS Energy Chairman Yongsu Yong

GS E&C Collection of Works | Indonesia Kgalley hotel