Past Exhibitions and Events

Haesol Kim: PLAY

14th - 18th June

For modern people who feel emotionally insecure and lonely, her work centres around childhood pranks and fun and making people feel happy through joy and pleasure.
Her designs allow people to experience and play actively outside of reality and provide an environment where they can freely see, feel, and play like children. The play she chooses to explore is the language of inner purity itself through the nostalgia of the past.

Reflecting on the expression technique of mixing and synthesizing various types of images, she explores abstract forms of patterns by mixing materials and flat drawings. The “play” comes from the playful act in her childhood experience.

She seeks to make the audiences feel childlike, create a playful environment, and communicate with the work. The ‘easy’ and ‘fun’ characteristics of her work mean immediate enjoyment of play.

Her work can be used as a textile prop through various processes including colors, patterns, and shapes that give people a sense of comfort and friendliness. By sharing the emotions of seeing, feeling, and enjoying, people face the process of criticizing their adult selves and at the same time facing the inner child. She hopes her design will be a moment of pleasure in people’s daily lives.