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Mi-hyun Kang(b.1975 Korean)

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About
For me, the production of a work is an act to "get out of conflict" with oneself or others. Rather than the consciousness of creating a work, I named it a project and used it as an object of work to objectify the feelings that make me uncomfortable in life, that is, when "conflict" occurs. Until the emotions that occurred to me were extinguished, the work was produced and another project emerged along with other experiences in life. "Green" is the process of finding the realization that "there is nothing to say about me" for every conflict in life. In that context, "green" refers to the state of enlightenment, that is, the place away from all conflicts, is the best rock.

Green (2022)
I decided to take a picture of something that doesn't have a meaning in its form.

Green is the work of finding a state of not insisting on me, that is, a "truity" in which I lost myself, in the realization that the universal truth I believed came from the stereotypes I had created. There are countless moments of conflict in life. For example, "Who am I?" and "Why is that person different from what I think?" conflict occurs and disappears countless times a day. However, if you look closely at the questions that cause conflict, there is "I". The perception of "my stubbornness" and "different from me" is causing conflict with the self or others. Then what happens if you take me out of here? Where I don't exist. So getting out of all conflict and reaching a calm state, Schopenhauer described it as "self-sossil," where ego (ego) means one's will and greed, and abandoning them is self-loss and self-destruction, leading to a state of ignorance.

I lived in an environment close to nature for nearly a year and was amazed by the beauty of the Samranimansang turning green in the season when it changed from spring to summer. Soon afterwards, he discovered that the green that filled his eyes actually had its own heavenly colors. Still, aren't we just calling it green? "Green" is just what we name it to distinguish it from other colors, and there is no exact substance. As if my "self" is established in a relationship and there is nothing to actually say "me".
The state of not sticking to my green, breaking away from the notion that green is the only thing. Acknowledging that the green that filled the whole world was actually filled with different greens. There will be no trance there.
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Affiliation

Educational background

Osaka University of Arts Graduate School, Ph.D. in Contemporary Art and Photography

Awards

2016 Japan Film Society International Achievement Award

Artwork Location

Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery (NY), Zeit-Foto (Tokyo), Yangpyeong County Museum of Art

Exhibition and project history

Solo Exhibition
2015.03 My Midori / Umbrella arts / NY / selected by Curator Harvey Stein
2014.11 The print show 1 / Aldea de project / NY
2010.10 The Dreaming City _the true Story/ Port Gallery T/Osaka
2010.06 Can I Take Your Picture? / Musee F / Tokyo
2009.08 The Dreaming City _From Flowers/ The Omotesando Gallery / Tokyo

Group Exhibition
2018. 04 "Disobedient Daughters" Special Exhibition / Metro Arts/ Australia
2017. 06 4 female artists group show/ Shim Gallery/ NY
2017. 03 The Unreliable Narrator / ArtHelix/ NY
2016. 10 Full Circle / Mayson Gallery / NY
2016. 09 Black and White / ArtHelix / NY
2016. 02 Portrait Salon 2015 / Reminders Photography Stronghold/ Tokyo
2015. 11 Portrait Salon 2015 / The Embassy Tea Gallery/ London
2014. 11 Today is the day / TODAY IS THE DAY's 3rd Annual Benefit and Auction / NY
2012. 11 Other worlds/ ASA Asian society of arts annual exhibition / NY
2011. 10 TILL ALL IS GREEN/MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Art Prospects / NY
2010. 12 The 3th Anniversary Special Exhibition DOOR TO DOOR / Port Gallery T / Osaka
2009.12 Special Exhibition DOOR /Port Gallery T/Osaka
2008.03 City / The LEXUS Senboku Gallery / Osaka
2008.02 City / The HYATT Projects Gallery/Osaka

Art fair
2010.05 The Seoul Photo Fair / Seoul