Ayuna

Country where you live:

Korea south

City where you live:

Seoul

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Statement :

I always agonize over how we could gain the power to live more and how we could endure our life more. I am producing my works, thinking that we need a buttress whereby we can keep us safe from the dam collapsing every moment in this violent world. My works are about the methodology for such themes. I express my themes through the persona. For example, the persona takes us all to the forest that serves to rehabilitate the nature we have lost. The forest is a space free from the law of physics. There, numerous beings co-exist only to die after all, while other numerous beings are born anew. Our human beings will get relieved within the nature embracing everything, staring at the cycling life. Not only the forest awaits us. The persona will also take us all to the flowing air filled with the invisible and innumerable grains, the sea where the universe flows, the earth upon which we stand, leaves, and others. The persona will talk about the reasons why we should keep our vital power and life.

Birth of shell

We all are born with different calling. Every human being born here on the earth should find their own way to live and walk the path given to the soul. I am awakened, finally, in a maze a soul dives into. Myself who is born from sea foam, remembers the future. No more pretending I don’t exist. Spring will start when a west wind glides through the sea, and at that moment, a spotless mind will ruffle like a wave.

Work Credit:

By myself

Shell’s Holly altar

Though flame I vow: To pray for everything newly born, hope, abundance and love. To truly embrace humans and protect faith in virtue. To develop a sense of altruism by expanding a vessel of the soul through endurance of pains and hardship To burn with the spirit running throughout a body instead of blood and never let it be frozen. To open a gill out of a balance between hope and fear. To be born new always. To go beyond the limit. And I entirely devote myself.

Work Credit:

By myself

Shape of flame

Before a beautiful and magnificent sight, I can’t help but stand in awe. The scene washes out all sorts of uneasy feelings pressed into the corner of my heart. Bliss engulfs my body, and a certain purity, courage, and hope begin to fill my heart. And at that very moment, a person is born into a new being, completely different from everything before. The sea rides the wind and whispers to me, “if you are worn out from the journey of your life, here you can be reborn again and again.”

Work Credit:

By myself

Endless, oil on canvas, 90.0 x 90.0cm, 2021

It was a routine early morning. I played music while getting ready for the day. suddenly an acute feeling came across me. It was the same intense feeling that I felt when I went to the beach a few years ago, but I couldn’t understand why these feelings were coming up now. I’m usually a person that follows through with plans and avoids impulses, but that morning was a little different. I now understand why I made certain decisions at that moment. A certain impression precedes logic. The gaps in the past were filled in exquisitely, and past moments turned out to be inevitable. The “reasons” that I learned after a while completed the myriad of memories and made firm ground by which I could traverse the past, present, and future.

Work Credit:

By myself

Self-fulfilling prophecy

And I know I deceive myself in my own way. Know too well. I want to run towards a place I don't know where it is. I want to run away. Sometimes I feel like I am bursting. Reach high. It is very easy to handle. Press it down. Swallow. Remove.

Work Credit:

By myself

Bio:

Award

2015 Eland Cultural Foundation The first time art college artist chosen for the contest

2020 PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE 2020 Recommended Artists

2020 Nord Art The artists of the NordArt 2020

2020 2020 GAMMA Young Artist Competition shortlist

2020 Prisma Art Prize finalist

2020 OLIVA DE LA FRONTERA PAINTING PRIZE 2020 selected

2020 PRISMA ART PRIZE WINNER

2020 Marie Marzloff Award 2020 1st prize