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Exit 01

Exit 01

W 145.80cm x H 72.80cm x D 2.50cm

USD $5,223.30

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  • About this Exit 01

    Detail

    Medium

    Painting (Oil painting)

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2021

    Sign

    Artists' signature on the back of the artwork

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    After years of working with isolation and anxiety, I've recently realized that in the current climate of isolation, it's not something to be overcome, but rather something that can serve to harden you and your surroundings. With external factors such as COVID-19, we need to be more positive, and I've found that looking within ourselves and finding joy in it is good for us and others we interact with. Virtual games, where we create avatars, decorate our homes, and make friends, have become very popular. They allow us to do things we wouldn't be able to do in real life. The "Hide and Seek/Exit" series focuses on the emotion of "playfulness," which is similar to enjoying your own world in a game. You move from the point of view of a stranger wandering the outside world to the point of view of a resident living in an inner utopia. Because of this, the characters in the paintings change. They don't have to hide their emotions, so they have faces, eyes that sparkle and make expressions, and sometimes they take the form of trees or animals. They become your avatar and a new being in their own right, creating their own world in the painting.
    Just as you move from one space to another by completing quests, you can explore Choi's playground together, looking for hidden exits in the paintings. You never know when you'll find an invisible passage between painting and painting.

  • About this artist

    Namu Choi

    Namu Choi

    South Korea

    Concept

    Namu Choi is from Korea and lives in Japan. she came to Japan in 2007 and has been in Okinawa for about 4 years. Okinawa has a history of the Pacific War and many lives were lost. The energy of death always coexisted with the energy of strong life and had its own healing power. These two coexisting natural energies became an important motif in her work. Later, when she moved to live in the big city of Tokyo, the concept of her work changed. She began to express more of her own emotions than nature. From the perspective of an isolated and anxious immigrant and mother of two children, she decided to focus on the theme of "home" for a while. A floating house, a flowing house, takes root and grows branches, but is left in an isolated and empty space. The Internet and social media enrich conversations between people, but at the same time create a great divide between each other. Through her work, she has been searching for answers to where the most important and fundamental values in this world lie. During the global pandemic caused by the new Corona, the feelings of "isolation and anxiety" that she had been depicting were no longer special and were felt by many people, which led to a change in her paintings. I began to express the importance of a "positive" mind, of taking a good look inside oneself and at one's surroundings. Psychological Landscape" is an important point to explain her work, as she incorporates natural elements - trees, mountains, water, fire, earth, and people - into her paintings to express people's emotions. GREEN" has been a major theme in her recent works, and she continues to depict "the effort and will to change negative emotions and the environment into a positive one" by incorporating the natural energy symbolized by plants. "It is the intensity of many lives that creates a peaceful nature." She names the growing power of plants as "green fire" to ignite the screen. Rather than burning everything down, the green fire becomes an energy that nurtures new life and hearts. The "GREEN" series will continue for some time, taking many forms, including fire, waterfalls and waves.

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