She
is an artist from Seoul, Korea and currently
working in the Los Angeles area. She received
her BFA and MFA from Sungshin Women’s
University, Seoul in 2002, and also she
perused her Masters’ degree in fine
art from Otis School of Art and Design in
Los Angeles, California 2007.
After
she moved to Los Angeles, different public
receptions of her work between East and
West, and her position as an outsider in
both cultures made her wants to explore
the cultural, rational and linguistic discrepancy
between different cultures. As a performance
artist, sculptor, multi media artist, and
global citizen, she uses various symbolic
props and playful banality of everyday objects
to investigate social developments, structures,
and what happens when people encounter inverted
social conventions: the normal becoming
strange, the fair becoming unfair, white
becoming gray. Her performance often invites
the audience to participate in familiar
social activities while her actions occupy
spaces of non-communicative engagement.
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