JENNY IHN 'A GLIMPSE: I Saw Another World, More Material Than Ours'

JENNY IHN A GLIMPSE: I Saw Another World, More Material Than Ours JENNY IHN

20.11. – 17.12.2014

ARTIST STATEMENT

“A few years ago, I found myself praying in and through my art practice. Soon afterwards I came to realize that I was experiencing God in a way that I had not expected. I started to sense responses to prayers that I had prayed: sometimes through the intuitive pulses which drives my art practice; sometimes through the materiality of the mediums I use; sometimes by being reminded of words in scripture; and sometimes through deep and clear convictions—all, in and through the process of art-making. I have come to believe that receiving God in this particular way is something that I can experience and seek, in the here and now, even through what is mundane and thoroughly ordinary, such as the materiality of the art-making process. All of this was a new way of being for me: I am used to compartmentalising the material and spiritual strands of the lived-world as mutually exclusive categories, as opposed to seeing them as aspects of the lived-world which profoundly interpenetrate each other—whereby the other exists through the other, as a seamless whole.

Earlier on in the year, I came across something that Karl Rahner, a German theologian, says of my God. This claim of Rahner’s has been quite formative for this particular body of work in its exploration of the interpenetration between the ordinary and the sacred. Rahner, in meditating on a passage in scripture, says of God that He is a God who visits and celebrates a wedding in Cana because He can’t help but join in with human beings in celebrating that which is human, that He is a God who quietly and unobtrusively turns water into wine at a wedding so that even a miracle of God will not disturb human festivities. And, as Rahner suggests in his writings, this current body of work is an attempt on my part to be mindful of the profound and dynamic interrelation between what is material and spiritual, between what is seen and unseen in our world—as a whole.”

Jenny Ihn, 2014

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of November 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of November 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of November 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of November 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of November 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘When Alleluia Came…’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 46 x 36cm (each), Triptych, framed, $2,600

‘Mysteries of the Earth’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 46 x 36 cm (each), Triptych, framed, $2,600

‘Be It Unto Me’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 50 x 40 cm, framed, $950

‘A Meditation on Water and Blue’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 46 x 36cm (each), Triptych, framed, $2,600

‘Blessed’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 62 x 61 cm, framed, $1,400

‘Going Home’, 2014, Dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 45 x 36 cm (each), Triptych, framed, $2,600

‘The Well’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 65 x 59 cm, framed, $1,400

‘Square-Water’, 2014, Water and dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 64 x 54 cm, framed, $1,400

‘Little Room’, 2014, Dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 53 x 73 cm, framed, $1,400

‘In That Place’ 2014, Dry seashell pigments on watercolour paper 850gsm, 45 x 36 cm (each), Triptych, framed, $2,600

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of November 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Born. 1980 Seoul, South Korea Lives and works in Sydney, Australia EDUCATION 2013-Present 2011-2012 2006-2009 2000-2002 2003-2006 1997-1999

Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia Doctor of Philosophy, Fine Arts, Painting Major, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia Masters of Fine Arts, Painting Major, Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia Bachelor of Divinity, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia Bachelor of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Major, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney, Australia Camera Craft I & II, B &W Photography, Lighting, Portraiture, Flash Photography, Il-San Daejin High School, South Korea

EXHIBITIONS 2014 A GLIMPSE: A Saw Another World, More Material Than Ours, Dominik Mersch Gallery 2013 Dust, Solo Exhibition, Dominik Mersch Gallery in collaboration with the University of Sydney 2012 Sydney College of the Arts Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts 2012 Annual Members Exhibition, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 2002 Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts 2002 Brink­, Group Show, New Space Gallery 2001 Oublie, Group Show, Dome Books

AWARDS 2013 – till 2015 Australian Postgraduates Award—Scholarship 2012 Dominik Mersch Gallery Award, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Winner 1992 Art of the Year Award, Hanshin School, Seoul, South Korea, Winner