ⓒ Chang Jia
Three
Artists of the School of Visual Arts Participate in “Hexed, Vexed & Sexed:
8 Women Artists from Korea” in the Netherlands
Artists
Lee Eunsae, Chang Jia, and Jung Heajung, alumni of the School of Visual Arts,
engaged in an exhibition, “Hexed, Vexed & Sexed: 8 Women Artists from Korea”
in Hague, the Netherlands. It is the second collaboration exhibition by the art
space Loop and Den Haag, taking place from 3 November 2023 to 14 January 2024.
Amid
the increasing interest in Korean culture in recent days, the exhibition explores
how Korean female artists have struggled to explore, thrive, and survive as artists
at the same time as challenging the expectations of society or their own limiting
beliefs from the 1960s to the present. The audience can find how the prospects,
requirements, and possibilities of women have changed over generations.
The “Hex” in the exhibition title symbolizes the irrepressible female power. Although the idea is often degraded for being irrational, childish, or barbaric, it has generated the important social impacts that diminished the patriarchal control.
The “Vex”
refers to tensions that arise in the process of women pursuing solidarity beyond
social classes and racial differences to pioneer, nurture, and build the
territories of relative autonomy. Lastly, “Sex” is related to the complete
liberation of human beings who are abided by their social obligations.