Hi Kyung Eun
eunhikyung@gmail.com
@hikyungeun
@hikyungeun
Hi Kyung Eun is an independent artist based in the Netherlands and Korea. She is interested in an individual's fluidity and in-betweenness in the contemporary context.
For her, herself is a specimen for the study of contemporary life. Her work starts from studying the very realistic and mundane incidents in everyday life - moving from this region to the other region, YouTube addiction etc. By writing a short text like a poem about them, she navigates the subjective reality in the bigger social phenomena, such as diaspora or digitalization.
Through the language of sculpture, painting, and installation, she experiments with ambiguous boundaries between physical and virtual, light and heavy, and moving and fixed. And she observes, collects, and reproduces fragments of senses, cognitions, and emotions.
In the process of translating reality to her own hyperreal, she looks for a poetic moment where the work and audience are connected.
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은희경은 한 개인과 둘러싼 대상들 사이의 변화하는 관계성과, 그 속에 존재하는 현대의 본질적인 유동성에 관심을 가진다.
그녀에게 스스로는 현대적 삶의 연구하기 위한 하나의 표본이다. 그녀는 일상 속에서 관찰한 아주 현실적이고 평범한 사건과 현상들-타지 생활, 유튜브 중독 등-을 파고 들어 그와 연결된 큰 사회적 흐름을 이해한다.
시와 그림은 그녀가 마주한 주관적 현실을 소화하는 방식이다. 현실과 가상, 인간과 비인간. 크고 작은 것, 가벼운 것과 무거운 것, 움직이는 것과 고정된 것의 모호한 경계를 오브제와 설치작업의 언어를 통해 실험된다. 그리고 뒤섞인 감각과 인지, 감정의 조각들을 관찰, 수집, 재생산한다.
그녀는 이 과정에서 탄생한 만연한 초현실을 통해 작업와 관객 사이의 접점이 생겨나는 시적 순간을 의도한다.
Education
2019-2021
MA Contextual Design, Cum Laude
Design Academy Eindhoven
2013-2018
BFA Industrial Design
BA Psychology
Ewha Womans University
Residency
2021
sundaymorning@EKWC (European Ceramic Work Center)
Publication
* author / contributor
2021
The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design
Publication by Louise Schouwenberg & Michael Kaethler (eds.), Valiz, The Netherlands
-> Participated as a contributor
2017
But Drawing: Incomplete Fantasy
Independent publication by ‘But Drawing’ group, Republic of Korea
-> Participated as a co-author
* Press
<Online>
Schiedammer Online - Bit by Bit. Digital Landscapes (-> Strange Cohabitation)
Schiedam 24 – Exhibition Bit by Bit in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (-> Strange Cohabitation)
Elementa – Highlights from Dutch Design Week 2022 (-> Waving Home)
DesignDB – Ways to see a spinning top (-> Waving Home)
<Print>
Trouw – Bit by Bit. Digital Landscapes (-> Strange Cohabitation)
Kunstkrant- Bit by Bit. Digital Landscapes (-> Strange Cohabitation)
Het Nieuwe Stadsblad - Bit by Bit. Digital Landscapes (-> Strange Cohabitation)
Monthly Design - Dutch Design Week (-> Waving Home)