Kyujin Cho

“You have to systematically create confusion, it unleashes creativity. Everything that is contradictory creates life.” (Salvador

Dali)

Kyujin Cho is a contemporary Korean artist who has been involved in the act of creating since she was a teenager, when she designed accessories prioritizing the originality of the shapes, textures and patterns of her jewelry. From this experience on, the artist has been following her artistic path, seeking to listen to her imagination and to enter into new discoveries which are free from logical and rational demands. In her new series of digital works, Kyujin questions the forms which have already been seen in the world and in nature: are there, and, if so, what are the creatures on earth that have never been seen? It is estimated that there are 8.7 million species in the world, most of which are cataloged on land, but there are several studies that prove that most of these species have not yet been identified. Scientists also warn that many of the species will become extinct before they can be studied. It is in this territory of the intriguing, the imaginary, the unconscious, the immensity of being and existing that Kyujin's work creates ties with surrealism. A philosophical work that seeks to float through the existential and unique potential of nature and its forms. Containing Photoshop techniques, the work called “Discovery: Space butterfly”, on display at ARTOXIC, represents one of those species idealized by the artist and materialized with shades of blue and purple, as well as traces of flower petals composing the animal, transparencies, textures and symmetry. Questioning the hegemonic representations of beings in nature, the artist not only faces the rhythm of discoveries of new potential beings on our planet, but also brings reverberations of the word “possibility” to the public. Everything that can be and that can exist and live among us human beings. In the dream, the conscience puts itself to rest so that the unconscious can work, in the daydream the conscience puts itself to work but the unconsciousness rests. Daydreaming is the work of the day soul, the dream of the night soul. According to Gaston Bachelard, artistic work is done in reverie, which is where there is communication and the subject is communicating. The work of art is the product of a creative daydream.

Art Curator Barbara Magliocco