Sculpture Description

The sculptures and paintings selected, as if they are the delegates of modern people, express our hopes and dreams, agonies and pains in the contemporary society on behalf of us. The ubiquitous unseen – problems in the modern society are lying everywhere around us, yet few of us care to see them –can also be seen now through the selected art works. The repeatedly appearing bright colors of red, orange, green and blue are inspired from the beauty of our traditional clothes, HanBok and reminds us of the happy nostalgia to the past.
Boony's mother and Boony are the image of a traditional Korean mom, representing their dilemma in the contemporary society, their innate desires to be active counterbalanced with the expectation from the tradition that they be quiet and passive. Bright colors of her traditional clothes contrasted with her gloomy facial expression symbolize this dilemma. However, the world has given a way for an end to their agony, the escape to the wonderland, as represented in the following sculptures.
They introduce them to the door to the wonderland. The five characters of distinct colors in the third slide represent the five promises of the wonderland, realization of a dream, hope, freedom, trust, and love. The first character, Goat is the door to the wonderland, the realization of everyone’s very dream. The concubine is the love whose encompassing power is so wide that even concubines in the wonderland can expect a true and sincere love.
An upside-down humorous figure of a clown in an aerobics suit is another satirical critique of the contemporary society. He draws out the poor majority’s desire for a big change to shake the world that could make them the rich and the rich the poor.
The remorseful monk and his tear are the destroyed nature and loss of innocence in the contemporary society. The tear is the monk’s as well as ours from the desperate nostalgia of the past, the unstained nature and the naïve society. The upside-down face in the tear embroidered with an eye of sky and clouds and the other eye with a Korean currency represent the hypocrisy of the modern people, of which the monk as well as we are contrite of.