Son Solnip

1983 Born in Cheongju, Korea

2006 Graduated from the Painting Department of Seowon University with a bachelor's degree

2010 Graduated from the Painting Department of Kookmin University with a master's degree

SOLO EXHIBITION

2011  

A New Species, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015 

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

2014  

Lecture Performance, Gyoyokso, Seoul

Dream, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan

2013  

Euljiro Renaissance, Art Council Korea, Seoul

Studio 1/36°:3232, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan

2012  

Christmas in Korea, Lotte Gallery, Busan, Seoul

Son Solnip: Through a series of works involving a repeated process of inflating and removing paper screens, as a reflection of the subconscious, I have been trying to expand the range of my expression from flat surfaces into cubic space.

I convey the anxiety and confusion. I currently feel as a young artist, straddling the line between formal representation and abstraction through the transmutation of images. I express support for organic coexistence with animals in my work. They have always been objects of comfort, rather than something to be depicted as near-extinct or rare species.

My works are full of recurring patterns created through the process of repetitive “tearing-off”. The sharp and rough materials produced through this “tearing-off” and thorn-like repeated patterns that generate a sense of tension come together, as I hope they would ultimately rest in an ideal form. They become a “new species,” at once familiar but also alien, non-existent anywhere else in the world. This creative process derives from an indefinable,incomplete internal feeling, and considers the interrelationship between the psychological background of tearing-off and the abstractness of the patterns as the form and its meanings are deconstructed. The ambiguity found inthe work could be explained as being integral to a process of seeking the fundamental construct of the internal psyche.