Heesoo Kwon: “Invincible Summer” at Minnesota Street Projects, SF

June to September, 2020

Minnesota Street Projects, SF.

https://ex.minnesotastreetproject.com/Ex/Invincible/Invincible.html

Artist: Heesoo Kwon
Title: 02/29/2020-05/26/2020
Running Time: 0:04:46

Artist’s Note
I initiated the autobiographical feminist religion 'Leymusoom' and use the digital space as a utopian realm which reframes personal history and trauma to build a feminist utopian world. By rendering 3D characters of my matrilineal line, I give them second lives and allow them to reclaim a timeless 3D reality outside of the repetitions and routines of their former domestic lives.

Through Leymusoom, I am able to abstract conceptions of time, boundaries of appropriate love, sacrifice, trauma, violence, and familial relations. I blend the boundary between my real life and the digital utopian world of Leymusoom by 3D scanning/modeling my family history, daily rituals, and the physical spaces around me. 02/29/2020-05/26/2020 is a record of three months of quarantine in my Oakland home. I 3D scanned my bedroom and brought the 3D characters of my matrilineal lineage into the room. In this work, my bedroom becomes a portal for hyperspace travel to meet my family and realize the utopian world that I am envisioning.

Artist Bio
Heesoo Kwon is a visual artist and anthropologist from South Korea, currently based in Oakland, California. Kwon received her Master of Fine Art from UC Berkeley in 2019. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Et Al, San Francisco and CICA Museum and Visual Space Gunmulsai, South Korea. She has participated in group exhibitions at the CICA Museum; the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley; Root Division, San Francisco; SOMArts, San Francisco; and Embark Gallery, San Francisco, among others. In 2012 Kwon received the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Her other accolades include the Young Korean Artist Award from the CICA Museum and the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for Photos and Art Practice from UC Berkeley.