Art salon de H
《無題: 이일로 회고전》
故이일로(1943–2022)
2025. 8. 5 – 8. 20
아트 살롱 드 아씨
전시 오프닝 행사 2025.8.7(목)PM5:00
Art Salon de H is pleased to present Flower, Beyond Beauty, a solo exhibition by artist Kim Jungah, on view from August 22 to September 20, 2025.
Kim has long been attentive to beings and objects that have quietly lost their light and remained behind in the flow of time and space. Over the past decade, her gaze has turned toward the sea and environmental issues. Since 2010, she has been collecting marine debris along the shores of Geoje, transforming these remnants into the language of art. For the artist, discarded waste is not merely pollution but a trace of modern civilization—material that, within her work, is reborn with new life and beauty.
This exhibition features works in which marine debris salvaged from the sea is reimagined as flowers and fairies. The petals and silhouettes that unfold on the canvas extend beyond decorative beauty, carrying reflections on the desires of consumer society and its remnants, while also evoking compassion for existence and the regenerative force of life.
Viewers will encounter scenes where the boundaries between destruction and renewal, death and beauty, dissolve—experiencing, almost physically, the possibility of life blossoming even amid ruins.
Flower, Beyond Beauty not only prompts reflection on urgent environmental challenges but also reveals how art can transform and reinterpret them. Rooted in local experiences yet closely linked to global ecological concerns, Kim Jungah’s practice reminds us of the significance of small, everyday actions. This exhibition aspires to be a modest but meaningful step toward envisioning a sustainable future.
Kim Jungah has consistently turned her attention to what lies beyond the surface of everyday life—things forgotten and left behind in the passage of time and space. In the late 1990s, while observing the transformations brought about by urban redevelopment and the rise of consumer society, she began to explore the relationships among humans, objects, and nature. This inquiry led to works that dissect the structures of desire in contemporary society through the mediums of “food and waste.”
Since 2010, her practice has expanded toward the sea. By directly collecting marine debris from the shores near Geoje and transforming it into artistic material, she has critically engaged with pressing environmental issues. In her hands, discarded plastics and floating remnants are reborn as forms of flowers, fairies, and forests—evoking vanishing vitality and the significance of human existence. These efforts move beyond simple acts of recycling, becoming a sustained exploration of the aesthetics of destruction and regeneration, memory and oblivion
