Kim Sihyun
- Introduction of Artist
- Kim Sihyun (1971~) symbolizes bojagi to express her ego as a Korean woman. Bojagi, which gradually faded away with the debut of bags as it becomes modernized and westernized, was a prerequisite essential that was used for multiple purposes in the past. In her childhood, she has a memory of fluttering moment when she saw a mother bringing a bundle wrapped in Bojagi from the market. She imagined what was inside and waited for the moment to unpack the Bojagi. Inside the Bojagi, there were daily necessities such as sesame oil, food clothes, or books, as well as live chickens. Bojagi, sometimes wrapped bedding such as blankets, unconditionally and generously embraces any object of any shape. The warmth of the Bojagi is reminiscent of the warm affection of Koreans and unconditional love of a mother’s arm.
In addition, characters such as blessings and numbers were embroidered to convey wishes for happiness and longevity, and animals such as ten traditional Symbols of Longevity, dragons, and phoenixes were embroidered to reveal dignity and elegance. Bojagi became a special means of communication with sincerity and love.
Artist Kim Sihyun actively explores and studies Korean aesthetics by taking animals or flowers in court art as motifs, the pinnacle of the splendor of traditional Korean culture, to unravel the spirituality of Korean art in modern formative language. Her artworks of Bojagi allure attention not only from the narrative of the material but also from the methodological perspective. The Bojagi, expressed in hyper-realism that depicts the extreme details, creates the illusion of seeing a package wrapped in real Bojagi. However, the background of the Bojagi, such as the blue sky, middle of the forest, and under the chandelier, is not real but an imaginary space. Moreover, the act of decorating the Bojagi by portraying ornaments such as hairpins, Norigae (Korean traditional ornament worn by women), and flowers intentionally reveals that the Bojagi in the artwork is not the actual Bojagi itself but an artist’s creation.
A glimpse of the artist’s intention of a modern interpretation of tradition can be found in the fact that the artist embodies conventional Korean material through the splendid color development of oil painting, a traditional medium of Western art, to create a dramatic scene where intense light stays as if it has been spotlighted. Her Bojagi artwork does not simply dwell on the nostalgia of the past, but conveys the spirituality of the Orient in Western formative language. Like the title of the artwork ‘The Precious Message’, it leaves a lingering impression as a message that gives a special resonance to the viewers.
Kim Sihyun graduated at Incheon National University in Western Painting and received her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Hongik University. Since 2004, she held 36 solo exhibitions in Korea and abroad, and has been invited over 350 group exhibitions. In recognition of her artistic prowess, she was invited to the Biennale 3 times, including the invitation to the 2009 Gwangju Design Biennale. Her artworks are collected by major art galleries, such as National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Art Bank), Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Yangpyeong Art Museum, and Foreign embassies including the Embassy of Japan and Yemen in Korea. Furthermore, her artworks are published in art textbooks for middle school and high school. She spent first period of ARTKIST residency (2013-2014), and as a full-time artist from 2020, she lectures at Sejong University and Baekseok Arts University.
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