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๋‚˜๋Š” ์œ ํ•™์œผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์š•์— ์™€์„œ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๋กœ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์ ์ธ ํ’๊ฒฝ ์†์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ํšŒํ™”๋ฅผ ์ž‘์—…ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์€ ์‹ค์ œ ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ๊ฑด๋ฌผ, ์นดํŽ˜, ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์  ์ธ ์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ดˆํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒน์ณ์ง€๋ฉฐ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ์ž‘์—… ์†์— ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žํ™”์ƒ์ด ์ž ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ์กด์žฌ์ด๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๋ณด์•„์™”๋˜ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์Šต ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋„์‹œ ์†์—์„œ ์•„ํ†ฐ์ด ์ž‘์€ ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ ์†Œ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ์กฑ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์˜ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๋กœ์„œ ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์œ„์น˜์™€ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์€์œ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์†์—๋Š” ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ์–ด๋‘ ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์ค‘์—๋Š” ๋ฐฐํŠธ๋งจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์•”์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์€ ํŠน์ • ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ์ž์ฒด์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ์†์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ๊ณผ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ๊ธฐ์šด์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค ์€ ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์†์— ๋‚ฏ์„  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ํ’๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์†์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ์†์—์„œ ํ˜ผ์ž์ธ ์•„ํ†ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •์„œ์ ์ธ ์•ˆ์‹์ฒ˜์ด์ž ์„œ๋กœ ์˜์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™๋ฐ˜์ž๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๋…์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์กด์žฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์ธ์‹ ์†์—์„œ, ์ด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ์™ธ๋กœ์šด ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์ด ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ์œ„๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ œํ•œ๋œ ํŒŒ์Šคํ…”ํ†ค์˜ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ์žฌ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•ด์„๋œ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์‹ค์ œ ๋„์‹œ์™€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์ด ๊ฒน์ณ์ง€๋Š” ์ง€์ ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด์š•์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์œ„์— ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต, ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ, ๊ณ ๋…ํ•œ ์กด์žฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž‘์€ ์œ„๋กœ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋“ค์ด ๊ฒน์ณ์ง€๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ดˆํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋„์‹œ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค.



I came to New York as an international student and now live here as an immigrant, creating paintings that explore personal psychological experiences within everyday urban landscapes. My work begins with specific places in New York—streets, buildings, cafés, and subways—but layers of memory, emotion, and surreal elements overlap these scenes, forming another version of the city. Atom, a character that repeatedly appears in my work, is not simply a cartoon figure but another self-portrait and a symbol of my childhood memory. The Atom I saw in my childhood appears in my paintings exactly as I remember him. His small presence within the vast city reflects the position and emotional experience of living as a minority immigrant in an urban environment. At times, shadow-like figures appear within the paintings. Among them, characters reminiscent of Batman may briefly emerge. However, these figures function less as specific characters and more as symbols of invisible tension, anxiety, and ambiguous emotional energies that exist within the city. These elements introduce a surreal sensibility into otherwise familiar spaces, transforming urban landscapes into psychological landscapes. My real-life cat also appears in my work as an important presence. In the paintings, the cat becomes an emotional refuge and companion for the often solitary Atom. Within the understanding that human beings ultimately carry a fundamental solitude, their relationship suggests how isolated beings can offer one another small moments of comfort. Using a limited palette of pastel tones, I reconstruct the scenery of New York with a softer atmosphere that resembles memory. Rather than simply depicting the city as it is, these colors allow the city to be reinterpreted through emotion and recollection. Ultimately, my work explores the point where the physical city and the inner landscape of the individual intersect. Within the space of New York, childhood memories, urban anxiety, solitary figures, and quiet relationships of comfort overlap to form a surreal psychological cityscape.



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์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๊น€ํ˜ธ๋ด‰์˜ ์ „์‹œ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋‰ด์š• ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฐฉ๊ฐ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ๋‹ค. ๋…ธ์ฒœ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ๋ฌด์‹ฌํžˆ ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์›Œ์ง„ ๊ธธ๋ชจํ‰์ด, ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์•ˆ์„ ๋“ค ์—ฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ๋“ฑ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๋‰ด์š•๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ•œ ํŒŒ์Šคํ…”ํ†ค์˜ ์˜ค์ผ ํŽ˜์ธํŒ…์œผ ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์–ธ๋œป ๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ์—†์–ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ์†์— ์ˆจ์€ ๋‚ฏ์„  ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ํ•œ ์ž‘์€ ๋กœ๋ด‡, 1960 ๋…„๋Œ€์™€ 70๋…„๋Œ€ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์šด ์–ด๋ฆด์  ์นœ๊ตฌ์ด์ž ์ž‘์€ ์˜์›…, ์šฐ ์ฃผ์†Œ๋…„ ์•„ํ†ฐ์ด๋‹ค. (์ผ์–ด ์ด๋ฆ„: ๋งˆ์ดํ‹ฐ ์•„ํ†ฐ ,์˜์–ด ์ด๋ฆ„: ์•„์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด). 1952๋…„์— ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ 21์„ธ๊ธฐ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋А ๊ณผํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์•„๋“ค์„ ๋ณธ๋–  ๋งŒ๋“  AI์ด๋‹ค. (์›์ž‘์—์„œ ๊ณต์‹์ ์ธ ์•„ํ†ฐ์˜ ์ƒ์ผ์€ 2003 ๋…„ 4์›” 7์ผ์ด๋‹ค.) ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ 60~80๋…„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ ์„ ํ’์ ์ธ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋‹น ์‹œ ์Šˆํผ๋งจ, ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋งจ, ์›๋”์šฐ๋จผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง•๊ฐ€ ์ œํŠธ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜ํผ ํžˆ์–ด๋กœ๋“ค๋„ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ์ž‘์€ ์†Œ๋…„๋กœ๋ด‡ ์•„ํ†ฐ์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „์‹œ์—์„œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์— ์•„๋ จํ•œ ์ถ”์–ต์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š” ์•„ํ†ฐ์„ 21์„ธ๊ธฐ ๋‰ด์š•์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ™˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„ํ†ฐ์—๊ฒŒ 21์„ธ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋‰ด์š•์€ ์–ด๋–ค๊ณณ์ผ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•„์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ์™”๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚ฌ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๋‹ค์ธต์ ์ธ ํƒ€์ž์˜ ์ƒ ์ง•์ด๋ฉฐ ์ดˆ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏผ์ž, ๋กœ๋ด‡, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ(ํ˜น์€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ„ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜)์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ผ์ค‘์˜ ํƒ€์ž์„ฑ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๋‰ด์š• ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ ์ด์งˆ์„ฑ์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•œ ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์†์˜ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๋Š˜ ํ˜ผ์ž๊ณ  ์•„๋ฌดํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์–ธ์–ด์˜ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ๊ทน ๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ด๋ฏผ 1์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ฌธํ™”์ ์œผ ๋กœ ๋™ํ™”๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค. ์•„ํ†ฐ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์˜†์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ณ ์–‘์ด ๋กœ๋ฏธ์˜ค๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋Š” ์•„ํ†ฐ๊ณผ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋™์ผ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์˜ ํƒ€์ž์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํƒ€์ž์„ฑ์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์‹œ์ผœ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ์žํ™”์ƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‰ด์š•์€ ๋ฐ๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์— ์—ด๋ ค์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋™์‹œ์— ์–ด๋‘ก๊ณ  ๋‘๋ ต๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋œ ๊ณณ์ด๋‹ค.   ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํผ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋ฏผ 2์„ธ๋Œ€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ํ”ํžˆ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์˜ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ ์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜ผ์ข…์„ฑ์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๊ธฐ๋Š” ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค. ๊น€ํ˜ธ๋ด‰ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ๋šœ๋ ทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๊ฒƒ ์€, ์•„ํ†ฐ๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์ด ํ˜•ํƒœ, ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ, ํ…์Šค์ณ ๋“ฑ์—์„œ ํ™•์—ฐํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ํŒŒ์Šคํ…”ํ†ค์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ ์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ํ”„๋ฆฐํŠธ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งค์šฐ ์‹ค์ œ์ ์ด๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋งจํ•˜ํƒ„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋น„๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ ์ง„์„ ์ฐ์€ ํ›„ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋กœ ์ž‘์—…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฒˆ์˜ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋ฐ์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด ๋”˜์ง€ ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ณ  ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ•œ ํŒŒ์Šคํ…”ํ†ค์˜ ๋‰ด์š•์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ํŒŒ๋ž€์ƒ‰, ๋นจ๊ฐ„์ƒ‰, ๋…ธ ๋ž€์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ†ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃฌ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋Œ€์กฐ๋Š” ํ…์Šค์ฒ˜์™€ ์„ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ™•์žฅ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋งŒํ™”์ฑ…์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜ค๋ ค ๋‚ธ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋งค๋„๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ˆœ ํ™” ๋œ ์•„ํ†ฐ์˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋Š” ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•˜๊ณ  ํ…์Šค์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋œ ์ธ๋ฌผ ๋ฐ ๋„์‹œ ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๋‚ ์นด๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์กฐ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฐจ์ด๋“ค์€ ์•„ํ†ฐ์„ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์†ํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๋ณ„ํ•  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„ ๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ์™€ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๋™๊ณผ ํ˜ผ์ข…์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ “ํ˜ธ๋ฏธ ๋ฐ”๋ฐ””๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ “border”๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” edge์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฒƒ ์ด๋‹ค.   ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊น€์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘์€ ํฌ๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ดˆ์ ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋šœ๋ ทํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋Š” edge์— ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  (“ํ˜ธ๋ฏธ ๋ฐ”๋ฐ””๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ) “ํ‹ˆ์ƒˆ๊ณต๊ฐ„”์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ ค๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋˜์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฐฝ์กฐ๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋™ํ™”๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ์ €ํ•ญ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ „๋žต์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ํŒ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ž‘ ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๋‘๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ํŒ์ง€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‰ด์š•์„ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ํŽ˜์ธํŒ…๊ณผ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‰˜์•™์Šค๋ฅผ ํ’๊ธด๋‹ค. ํŽ˜์ธํŒ…์—์„œ ๋ฐ๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ด๋˜ ๋‰ด์š•์ปค๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ ๋‹จ์ƒ‰์˜ ํ๋ฆฟํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋‘์šด ํŒ์ง€์•ˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ์–ด๋‘์šด ๊ณณ, ์†Œ์™ธ๋œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ํ”ผ๊ทœ์–ด๋กœ์„œ ๋” ํ™•์‹ค ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ฐ™์€ ์†Œ์™ธ๋œ ์ž๋กœ์„œ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ๊ณต๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ ์† ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ๋กœ๋ด‡์ด๋ผ์„œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐจ๋ณ„๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ฒ˜์ง€์— ๊ดด๋กœ์›Œํ•˜๋ฉด ์„œ๋„ ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ ํ•ด์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ฐ„์งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์€ ์ด ํŒ์ง€์†์˜ ์•„ํ†ฐ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์— ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šธ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ์•„ํ†ฐ์€ ์™ธ๋กญ๊ณ  ๋‘๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์†Œ์™ธ๋œ ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•จ๊ป˜  ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ์˜์›…์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์ด๋‹ค.  ๊น€ํ˜ธ๋ด‰์˜ "Unfamiliar Time, Unfamiliar Space” ์€ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์™€ ํƒ€์ž์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ Œ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ํ†ต ํ•ด ์ด๋ฏผ์ž์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊นŠ์ด ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋‹ค.  ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ฐจ์ง€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ธ์‹์„ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฏผ์ž์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด์™€ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•˜๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ์•„ํ†ฐ ์€ ๋‰ด์š•์—์„œ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„, ๋™์–‘๊ณผ ์„œ์–‘, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์— ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋Š” ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” Edge๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ๋‘ ์žฅ์†Œ์— ๋™์‹œ ์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” Border๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์„๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์— ์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กด์žฌ๋“ค ์˜ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์ธต์ ์ธ ์‚ถ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์— ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋” ๋„“์€ ์„ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.





This solo exhibition by first-generation Korean / American artist, Hobong Kim, at the GALA Art Center open through June 30th is titled "Unfamiliar Time, Unfamiliar Space," features pale, neon pastel-toned oil paintings and small cardboard works of everyday scenes in New York: coffee drinkers in cafes, pedestrians shopping or crossing streets, parked bicycles and people seated in the subway. However, a closer look reveals an unexpected presence within these scenes: Astro Boy or Atom; also known as Mighty Atom in Japan. Astro Boy, created by Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka in 1952, is an artificial intelligence modeled after a scientist's deceased young son. The story was set in the future of the 21st century, and it was immensely popular in both Korea and Japan from the 1960s to the 1980s. In his work, the artist summons Astro Boy to New York today and explores the New York experience for Astro Boy, who is of Asian origin, was born in the future yet is from the past, and not human. As a being of different space, time, and material, Astro Boy epitomizes the experience of alienation in New York. Astro Boy, in Kim’s paintings, symbolizes multi-layered otherness and transcultural identity. The artist identifies with Astro Boy, linking the character's otherness with his own, creating a complex self-portrait. To Kim, New York is bright yet dark, vibrant yet fearful, diverse yet isolating and his only companion is a cat named Romeo. Kim’s oil paintings do not show the fluidity or hybridity of identity often seen in many second-generation immigrant artists. They highlight the stark difference between the Astro Boy and his surroundings in terms of color, form, and texture. Based on photos Kim took while wandering through Manhattan, which underwent multiple layers of digital transformation, Kim creates a bright but somehow cold and pale neon pastel-toned New York. Astro Boy, however, is depicted in heavy accentuated colors contrasting sharply with the soft tones of the background. This contrast extends to form and texture. Astro Boy's smooth, simplified form, as if cut from a comic book, contrasts with the more detailed and textured realistic depiction of people and urban landscapes. These differences express the disparities and barriers experienced by immigrants in a new environment. In his works, the Astro Boy is visible but invisible and exists not on a fluid, hybrid 'border' as discussed by Homi Bhabha in The Location of Culture1994, but on the 'edge' with nowhere else to go. A different Astro Boy emerges in the works made from discarded cardboard. New Yorkers who were bright and lively in the oil paintings appear monochrome and dim within the dark cardboards, representing marginalized New York. As a 3D figure, Astro Boy occupies the space with a much stronger presence than within a flat image and empathizes with his surroundings as a fellow marginalized being. In the original animation, despite the continual discrimination by humans, Astro Boy’s heart persisted in protecting humans. The artist may be more closely represented by the Astro Boy within the cardboard—a lonely, fearful, but empathetic little hero among other marginalized beings as he knew in the past. Kim’s "Unfamiliar Time, Unfamiliar Space" explores the immigrant experience through the concepts of boundary and otherness. The artist exists on this boundary, but it could either be an edge pushed to the end of a border existing simultaneously in two places. He investigates the possibility of breaking down boundaries, which may be accomplished through the pursuit of empathy with others. Kim’s exhibition encourages understanding complex, multilayered lives on the boundary and listening to their stories. The works connect us to the wider world from within our boundaries.



์ž‘๊ฐ€ ์„๊ทผ๊ฒฝ(Kun Sok)