DMA - DAEJEON MUSEUM OF ART

In 2020, the Daejeon City Museum of Art will prepare the <Imagine the City> as its first exhibition for children. Under the theme of <Imagine the City>, we invite contemporary artists who stand out in painting, sound and installation to ask children a variety of questions. The environment is a natural and social phenomenon that affects living things, and humans are born with interdependent relationships with nature, institutions, customs. This exhibition aims to show a variety of images behind the city so that children can imagine their surroundings. We look forward to seeing children explore the world and evoke life through exhibitions that provide a new environment.

KIM Jimin uses fashion brand labels to make his works shaped like waves of the sea and MickeyMouse, hinting at the cycle of production and consumption operated in capitalism. Oxymoron, meaning an ostensible self-contradiction to reveal a paradox in Ancient Greek, is combined with ‘oxy,’meaning ‘sharp,’and ‘moron,’ meaning ‘blunt.’ In KIM’s work, labels disclose the human desire for product value and material things and at the same time present that they are merely pieces of fabric. What kind of vain desire do you have in your life?

liilliil's Dream Time - Wild Ambience shows living creatures that are rapidly disappearing due to the climate change and desertification of our planet through the songs of wild birds that she recorded on her own in Western Australia- Marble bar, Karijini National Park, and Pinnacles Desert of Nambung National Park. he bamboo structure was inspired by indigenous houses(Chum), which is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Evenks, tundra in Siberia, top of the shape that functions as a spiritual antenna opening into the universe. Let’s step into the bamboo house and listen to the immersive wild birds sounds composed of 15 audio channels, imagining the mysterious and untamed nature that coexist with the urban space.

UM A Long’s series of works, Moving Space , made considering the lower space of the overbridge of Oksu Station, offers a chance for viewers to pay attention to one another in a space full of noises. These works that can be disposed anywhere get to have a new meaning when the action of a viewer is added to them. And his work, One and One, is a double bench that secures a physical space between people, a distance that is needed today due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, this work plays a role of connecting people in terms of emotion.

JANG Dongwook makes a picture based on his memory. The scenes he has depicted contain the cities where he has lived from his childhood and others’ memories. His pieces, Green Shadow and Wild Plants , show the times the specific places had gone through, disclosing their hidden aspects. The relentlessly proliferating plants around the aging buildings also bring back JANG’s memories. Let’s look for ordinary s in the paintings. What do you feel from the blocking rod and the yellow sign on the ground, and the building materials seen among plants?

Jung Chanboo describes aspects of the city where artificial and living things coexist metaphorically, presenting the material property and colors of straws as they are. So far, cheap and handy plastic products, including straws, have contributed to the development of our civilization, but it is also a serious problem that their wastes severely damage our lives. Jung’s colorful plastic sculptures in various shapes, such as animals and plants, vividly contrast the results from humans’ lifestyles in pursuit of convenience with living things that must coexist with humans. Let’s talk about items that we throw away after using them easily.

KIM Jimin, IiiIIiiI, UM A Long, JANG Dongwook, JUNG Chanboo