Visual Artist Cha Jaemin Is Granted the Leeum Samsung Museum of Arts’ Art Spectrum Award

Visual artist Cha Jaemin, who majored in Fine Arts in the School of Visual Arts, became the third awardee of the Art Spectrum Award by the Leeum Museum of Arts. The Art Spectrum Award aims to discover promising young artists. 

The Leeum commented, “Cha Jaemin has pondered how the structural, systematic, and historical contradictions the society has could affect an individual and produced the original videos on it. Expressing the current issues in the Korean society in her language through the videos made from a thorough pre-production procedure and an imaginative filming skill, Cha has collected the attention of the arts community.”

The award-winning piece, “Nameless Syndrome,” is a 24-minute-long video work that begins with an awareness that an illness can significantly affect a woman in social terms. 

Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts, Cha has worked on creating disclosive videos on social issues through the lives of individuals in the society viewed from the conflicts surrounding the matters of new town redevelopment, victims of suspicious deaths, cable workers under frigile working conditions, and such.