박효진

[Note]

In the previous work, 'Night Garden', flowers were an image as a being of desire that ripened in abundance and bloom at night. Flowers blooming in the night garden exuded vitality and at the same time expressed the frustration and loss of desire with pigments flowing down along gravity.

This solo exhibition in four years looks at flowers from a different perspective from previous research. Flowers viewed as sculptors are interpreted and expressed differently from those of painters. Unlike the flatness of paintings that can draw imagination, the expression of sculptors who draw materiality and work with it is very different. Flowers are commonly used objects and there are many works with flower motifs, but flowers are still worth exploring if you change your perspective.

Flowers have been used in various cultures in a symbolic sense along with beauty. Religiously, it also means the birth or reincarnation of life. As such, flowers have been used closely with human life, history, and culture. Even in happy moments, it is an object that does not fall out when expressing happiness. Therefore, flowers have universality in which they are recognized as flowers even with simplified symbols. With a few petals and a few strands of yellow flowers, they become flowers without doubt. Flowers often appear in drawings that children draw poorly. They are clumsy and simple, but are enough to express happiness. The child colors faithfully to his instinct for color. In this exhibition, I explore the most basic and purest flowers that children seem to express from flowers that expressed frustration at the same time as the desire of the previous work. I draw and color with the child's heart, which selects and draws primary crayons. Flowers are drawn not only on the plane but also in the space.