Relational but solitary human existence.

"Missing You Is a Rock" / Lee Seunghoon (Art critic)

Choi Young-mi is showing her work on human figures in this exhibition. However, the author says that the emotion of "nostalgia" came to mind while looking at the rock at some point and that it was a work that began. The writer says that this subtle emotion is one of the driving forces that make people live while being in everyone's mind. People are born alone and everyone is lonely, so they must be lonely and miss someone, but in such a situation, the writer seems to have paid attention to the things that are lacking in the inside of a person. Therefore, it seems that they have explored the psychological situation created by emotions such as longing, that is, the need and lack for other beings as beings.

If you look closely at the human figure that the artist is drawing, you can see that many other human figures are organically combined inside the human. It indicates that human existence itself is a being built by the relationship and combination between humans. However, these human figures are divided into two types, black and white, and you can see that these two are drawn as if they are leaning on each other or hugging each other. Since it shows the starkest contrast between white and black, it is read as the structure of yin and yang, such as day and night, and the artist says that he tried to portray human's original longing from the human form expressed as an anode. This seems to mean not only heterosexual longing, but also an essential desire for the margin or lack of human existence.

In this context, it can be seen that the artist's desire for "nostalgia" within humans is a fundamental human need to live in family, friends, and even society. The artist found this as the foundation for humans to live, so it seems that he turned his attention to the organic relationship between humans. As shown in Choi Young-mi's work, the shapes that fill each other's vacancy like a puzzle explicitly show that other human bodies fill the space created by the shape of one human body, confirming that humans were inevitably dependent on other humans. At some point, the writer seems to have realized that humans are lonely and lonely as if they were alone after falling away from somewhere like a rock. However, when the space of loneliness became visible, it seemed that it was inevitable that humans who could fill the space were also humans, who had no choice but to be alone, but humans who were related and connected like organisms. Choi Young-mi's work depicts an empty human figure. However, at the same time, a human being filling the empty space is also depicted. At this time, the question of 'what human shape do you see' or 'what shape do you see humans in' is now inevitably the audience's choice.