From Muscles to Organs: Human Bodies Exposed in Their 'Raw' Form

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Exhibitions by two artists who view the human body through unique lenses are currently underway. While both feature unconventional depictions that reveal muscles and internal organs, their methods and the worlds they pursue are distinct.

Reporter Lee Joo-sang has the story.

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[Before It Becomes a Scene / Through July 25 / PKM Gallery]

Red, meat-like images fill the canvases.

Fragmented human bodies, such as muscles or parts of internal organs, are intertwined with unidentifiable biological entities.

The artist, who was previously diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, has sublimated the hallucinations experienced at that time into paintings.

[Lee Keun-min / Artist: Through hallucinations, I try to paint and show what something looks like before it is defined as a 'scene'...]

The artist says that while society defines hallucinations as symptoms of an illness, they become works of art once transferred onto canvas.

[Park Kyung-mee / CEO of PKM Gallery: It makes you feel both the very bold and intense modernity and the true classic depth that the painting itself possesses...]

Resisting the social atmosphere that encourages hiding pain, the artist pours their own suffering onto the canvas as it is, finding comfort and sharing it with the audience.

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[Raw Body: Anatomy of Desire / Through July 8 / U-Quake]

A black human figure hangs in mid-air.

With muscles, blood vessels, and internal organs exposed on a twisted torso, the work is rendered in pencil on hardboard.

The artist explores the inner instincts of humans, stripping away identities such as social status or position.

The core message is that humans are fundamentally nothing more than bundles of 'desire.'

[Kim Young-ji / Curator at U-Quake: Eating, digesting, excreting, and reproducing—these very primitive desires are the common denominators that all humans possess equally.]

Even in the human figures depicted with oil paints, the focus remains on the 'raw' state, stripped of the shell of social differences.

Through unfamiliar yet intuitive images, the exhibition gazes at the roots of humanity.

(Video Editing: Shin Se-eun, VJ: Oh Se-kwan)
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