Paper

This work derives from my experience about my nationality. I recently changed my nationality from North to South Korean and received a new passport. Although this didn’t change my personal identity, I noticed a big change in how I was perceived by others. Also, just by having different words written on my travel documents, I am now able to travel much more freely and do simple things easily like open a bank account. It made me feel so strange because they are just ‘paper’ to me same as ‘paper’ using in toilet. And I reminded a Japanese song called ‘Goat Mail’ which I used to learn and most of Japanese people also do when they were little.

Aesun Kim

Murder Case, 2007, Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, 38.5 x 53.5cm

Mother's Sacrifice, 2007, Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, 38.5 x 53.5cm

Various aspects of contemporary art have brought the new perspective on drawing that was once considered as a mere sketch. Drawing is now perceived as a media that can reveal artist’s original sentiment, liberating artists from oppressive perfection as an artwork of other media such as painting. However, there is nothing like open opportunity that does not assure anything. In front of the scribbled drawing, we can only nod and accept. doART Gallery presents drawing works of Ungpil Byen, famous for his oil paintings with surface-filling enlarged feature of the face, for first time, and would like to share his candor explanation on his drawing works.

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