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Ham
Jin
b.
1978, born and based in Seoul, Korea
While
still attending Kyungwon University, Korea,
Ham Jin achieved a nationwide attention
to his solo debut exhibition introducing
his microscopic clay figures in 1999. Ham
Jin takes his subjects from small or trivial,
and makes figures as small as the size of
a fingernail. He often incorporates dead
insects or other objects in his sculpture.
He has his own unique insight he could obtain
from obsessive and personal vision on the
world. He creates a micro-cosmos busy with
their own stories and logic, and the world
created by him sometimes mimic this world
as if it were making fun of us. Suddenly
his creatures are watching us, instead of
we are watching them. Then there follows
a whirlwind of questions on the grotesqueness
of a scale, narrative and finally, the reality.
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Ham Jin, Aewan Love #2, 2004, C-print photograph
of a sculpture made of polymer clay, fly
and mixed media, 155x125.5cm,
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sculpture
size, 1㎤
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Ham Jin, Aewan Love, 2004, installation
of sculptures made of polymer clay and mixed
media, installation view at pkm
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gallery,
Seoul
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Ham Jin, Hair, 1999, mixed media, sculpture
size 2.5cm
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