"Blooming Moment"
-Ham, YounJoo

3.21 ~ 4.4, 2007

Ham, Youn Joo employs material as hair by applying it with resin in her installation artwork, previously installed of a formation as a spider's web, shows the possibility of changes in forms hanging on the walls and on the ceiling. In the main gallery an installation artwork is weaved by hair with resin, named of <stair for heaven>, which is a gate towards a mysterious world that is filled within various emotions of hope, joy and excitement. By following the upper part of the stairs there are flashy black angel wings attached towards the wonderland of Ham, Youn Joo.

The trivial material of hair could be seen worthless, but the artist adds it into a value of art. In each of Gallery IHN spaces the artist will exhibit a different aspect of her work. On one side, historical books are placed in one line, which are each pieces that includes series of her representative motif during her past exhibition. In other words, the artworks are replaced in a chronicle order so that the artist could review her past works as a historical document.

Beyond her usage of adapting various materials in her artworks, she also uses crystals in her geometric formed artworks that are graved in a mirror with reflection. Inside the self-portrait work, a woman image of a posture of her back is the artist herself. While the mirror reflects the viewer in front, it also coexists with the back image showing duplicated images of a self-portrait. Ham, Youn Joo examines the role of the psyche in our interpretation of visual stimulation.

In another room, works that are shaped with circle figures are displayed with images of flowers that are blooming in pastel colors with crystals glittering inside the work. The artist states that the crystals have functions to radiate lights that shimmers the artwork in a whole. She depicts images of seeds with repetitive layers that naturally show a process of a mature blooming blossom.

Ham, Youn Joo creative works brings in a sensational atmosphere with delicate and fragile material that makes the viewers move cautiously. With such bodily experiences, the spontaneity and tangibility of her works become more conspiciuous.