​ⓒ 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.