Information
Date: 2022
Size: 35 × 25 cm (Sheet size)
Edition: 1/4
Technique: Mezzotint / Etching / Relief / Chine collée on paper
Detail: Not framed
Frame: Please Ask
Profile
2021 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, M.A. of the Printmaking department (Japan)
2018 Graduated from Hongik University College of Fine Arts, B.A. of the Printmaking department (Korea)
2018 Graduated from Hongik University College of Fine Arts, B.A. of the Art History and Theory (Korea)
Exhibition
2022
・Sequence (Gallery Soumei-do)
2020
・KOREA ART WEEK ーPrintmaking×Classic (Korea)
・ Multiple print (GALLERIA GRAFICA BIS, Tokyo)
・"TKO International Miniprint 2020" (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo)
2019
・"Toward the Future" (B-gallery, Tokyo)
・Future Artists Tokyo (Tokyo International Forum)
2015
・Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition (New Zealand)
・International Miniprint Triennale (Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo)
Gallery Commentary
Kim Jihye's artworks are based on photographic images. Kim searches for photographs that touch "something in me" from her own photographs or from her family's old film photo albums. She makes sketches based on them and creates her works using mezzotint and other copper-printing techniques.
She describes her work as "a record of me engraved in prints," and what she means by "record" here seems more like a "diary" to her. This may be because the work begins with a very personal scene and has a tendency toward self-confession. However, when we look at her works, we certainly feel a universal sensation that touches the deepest feelings of many people. Is it nostalgia, love, pity, or something else? Memories and emotions that cannot be expressed in a single word are swirling around.