مين جيونغ سيو

porous hands

source: naimoka

Née à Busan en Corée, l’artiste Min Jeong Seo a fait ses études à Seoul, Tokyo, puis Stuttgart, et vit aujourd’hui à Berlin.

Malgré sa finesse et sa beauté, son oeuvre évoque des thèmes assez sombres. Fenêtres murées, roses maintenues artificiellement en vie dans des sachets de perfusion remplis d’eau, architectures éclatées, ou encore oiseaux changés en sculpture. Toujours, une certaine fragilité se dégage de ces frêles sculptures suspendues dans l’espace, et une grande grâce, comme ces bras sans corps de danseurs de ballets, recouverts de tatouages de yakuza et moulés en porcelaine en position de danse.
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source: seo-minjeongde

biography

born in Busan, Korea

2003~2008: Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany

Department of Gaphic Art, Prof.Marianne Eigenheer

Department of Ceramics, Prof.Mariella Mosler

1998: MFA Department of Printmaking, Graduate School of Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

1995: BFA Department of Printmaking, College of Fine Arts of Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
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source: seo-minjeongde

porcelain, 2009

From the ceiling nylon cords hang down like rainfall. Attached to these threads of rain a mass of paired hands, cupped into a posture of begging. The pairs of hands are densly packed together, turned against each ofther, about two feet off the ground. The hands look hurt, like they would come undone. The begging hands are made of glazed porcelaine, casted. Rice grains were pushed into the surface of the porcelaine, they vanish in the firing process. The rice leaves holes, giving the hands an appearance of porosity; the more rice the hands held the stronger the injury. Naturally this installation is not about the kind of begging that is a most familiar view in our everyday-life, on the streets of the cities. Really, every human is begging – for attention – maybe without being aware of it. Therefor the jumbled array of paired hands partly turned towards each other. This begging comes from everyone and turns to many directions, it’s insatiable. The more attention someone receives, the more their self is actually becoming disintegrated. Hands are also a symbol for the ability to grasp something intellectually.The more the hands are injured, the less they can take hold of or grasp. Begging hands are unable to give at the same time.