HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)

Ilhwa Kim | Growing Surfaces

London

10 - 23 October 2024

Growing Surfaces

- Making seeing equal to touching

The material interplay of seeds on my canvas creates a peculiar life presence, usually associated with a kind of biological life still growing. The curious interplay between the material half and the biological half begins to create a curious zone in front of the work surfaces. Not only the physical surfaces of the work seem growing slowly, but also all the sensory units surrounding the work become palpable. This active space stimulates our hands, feet, mouth, nose, ears and eyes. “It has a synesthetic quality that gives it great sensuality—it makes looking equivalent to touching. “

This peculiar presence comes from the "biological liveness", "velocity", and its "growing up" quality of the work, associated with the living plants or animals. It must be our instinctive survival sensors which discerned a few specific qualities, originally belonging to biological life, from the material relief I made.

(“As for the Cezanne [Bather], it has a synesthetic quality that gives it great sensuality—it makes looking equivalent to touching. “ –Jasper Jones)

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Zheng Lu

China

Zheng Lu (born 1978 in Inner Mongolia, China) works and lives in Beijing. Zheng Lu studied at Lu Xun Fine art Academy from 1998-2003 and then at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 2004 until 2007. While still in school, Zheng was awarded with LVMH Prize, which provided the artist with three months training at The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ENSBA, Paris. Zheng’s artistic practice mainly revolves around sculpture and installation works with steel structure, but it includes also two-dimensional works, multimedia projects, and public art. Zheng, through a continuous and multifaceted practice, elaborated and perfected his art logic and language system. His works encompass a large variety of subjects matter and concepts including reflection on material, writing, the notion of water, time and space. All these ideas, elaborated through a complex and coherent conceptual framework, make Zheng Lu’s artistic language and practice unique and distinctive. His work, casting light on the possibility of different existential conditions, addresses also issues related the relationship between nature, individual character, and the self. 郑路，1978 年生于内蒙古赤峰市，现工作和生活于北京，郑路于1998-2003 年就读于鲁迅美术学院雕塑系，2007 年获得中央美术学院雕塑系硕士学位。2005 年获得 L.V.M.H. 青年艺术家大赛奖学金在巴黎国立美术学院学习。郑路主要从事不锈钢结构雕塑和装置创作，以及平面、多媒体、舞台和公共艺术等形式的创作。郑路在近几年来不断的个人实践当中逐渐构建和完善了自己的艺术逻辑和语言系统。他将物质、文字、水、时间、空间等概念纳入自成体系的观念构架中，形成了个人独特的语言表现方式。同时也借此来暗喻生命状态的多样性和可能性，及如何应对自然、自性和自我之间的关系。