Naked the dreamer

PARK jieun’s Naked Dreamer is composed of 8 mm circular iron units connected by thread. This work started with the artist’s deep interest in humans, especially women. The artist imbues the work with diverse discourses on the form of reproductive organs based on her own experiences and emotions as she grew into womanhood through adolescence. She adds her imagination to femininity, sexuality, gender, and the various relationships stemming from them. The artist says that the greatest charm of accessories is being able to wear them on human bodies. The work was created based on profound thoughts and understanding of human bodies, taking into consideration the characteristics of accessories that could be worn in different forms based on human movements. She takes note of the Me Too movement that has become a social issue in recent years. She focuses on her own story as a woman and unravels her observation of herself as a woman in her own language. She expresses the physical transformation that she went through in her adolescent years when her sexual identity was revealed in abstract images and represents the images of meeting and parting of men and women through images of reproductive organs. Her attempts to reach something essential that is beyond her own experience and emotions are presented in the conceptual expressions of what is innate in the unconscious, abstract, and invisible in the works.