Class

In South Korea where I was born, people are complaining about those born with a “golden spoon” in their mouth.
(a neologism which sarcastically refers to the class who gets ahead of the others thanks to their inherited wealth, not by their effort)

South Korea is now divided into social classes based on unseen factors.

More strikingly, the rest of the world is not free from social classification.
In a civilized society where every human being should be guaranteed freedom, equity and decency, there shouldn’t be such thing as “class”. However, we all know that unseen factors have always divided us into classes.

Turning the clock back, there was a period when people were divided into blue or white collar workers.

Ironically, we now collect, spread out, take photos of, and put tags such as emotional, vintage or industrial on the products made by the blue collars on social networking sites and wait for our friends to click the Like button.

As such, my artworks demonstrate something unseen but still existent.

The artworks are not paintings but created like paintings.

Paintings are made with dots or lines in two-dimensional spaces.
There is no rule dictating paintings to be that way, but all the paintings have been.

As such, I resist on the existing, tacit agreement.