BJ Cherry Chang–The Contemporary Art Shown By Korean
20¡¯s Artist
The
2021 award winning artist in fine art by Hermes foundation.
BJ Cherry Chang is a stage name of the
artist Ryu, Soengsil majored Sculpture in Univ. Above all, you should watch one
of her works on YouTube.
Probably, you must be puzzled on this
footage unless she is an video artist like Peak, Namjun, the famous Korean one.
BJ Cherry Chang, daring use title ¡°BJ¡±, have uploaded only five footages on her
YouTube account. The 2019 Footage seemed to be the last one that showed the
funeral of BJ Cherry Chang died of overwork in Ilmin Gallery, but the latest
footage appeared in 2020, titled ¡°the feeling of the first-class seat travel¡±.
You
could consider those footages to be parodies or cynical and sardonic critics on
our society, yet my opinion looks different. The fine art has a different
functioning ways on human society, and its influences are not just dogmatic,
enlightening, and educational.
The
prevailing appreciation of the work above would be, generally, ¡°UNCOMFORTABLE¡±,
I guess. The reasons why you felt that way are, maybe,;
1.
Unusual
Makeup far from usual female BJ, the device on her fore head, insert clips on
the footage, background of the footage, and unconventional broadcasting equips,
2.
The
grotesque and typical voice and tone beyond her appearance.
1.
3.
The
ridiculous contents of her saying and complex but absurd feelings
Intentionally using every possible
measure of sights and hearings, she had delivered discomfort to her audience.
What made her deliver such a discomfort her own audience? When human-being
feels uncomfortable, it is their instinct to find out the source the reluctantness
and unhappiness.
The
most important changes of fine art in its development from one seeking sight
for sore eyes before World Wars to the contemporary one are denying the identity
of previous fine art itself. The new one has presented ugliness and absurdity
which the previous one might not have indulged to search a new direction and purpose.
The
contemporary fine artist Ryu, Seongsil is making changes on her audience, even human-being
through unidentified ¡°discomfort¡±, ¡°embarrassment¡±, and ¡°denial¡± with her
works. Those changes could be enlightenment, wrath, or a trigger of an action. Definitely,
its purpose is not certain action or delivery of knowledge or enlightening
experience not like parodies, propaganda, or educational contents.
A
Group or Society itself can be the target of delivery and influence of her work
as well as individuals. In terms of individuals, her works convey its contents
to their emotional, intellectual, and rational aspects through possible
influential methods of the media, and the impacts on each of them make respective
results. Furthemore, the same person can recognize the different feelings and influences
according to the times and places on her work. The propaganda and commercials
have the only purpose, on the contrary, but art works have no goals. That makes
the source of diverse results naturally.
BJ
Cherry Chang who makes audience watching her works think where those discomfort
comes from.
Hence, she helps and urges us to analyze
and solve those uncomfortable things by; the speculation on myself as an
existence, identification of myself as a member of certain communities, and a recognition
of particular system of belif as an entity to arouse and divert on the
numberless present layers of myself.