Jiha Moon is a Korean artist, whose latest exhibition at the Derek Eller Gallery showcases a collection of ceramic masks and vessels that speak to identity and displacement.
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Moon’s masks blend a multitude of textures, colors, and symbols into each cohesive piece. A specific color palette aids in each work’s narrative, with complex combinations of hues providing strength in the objects’ visual presentations. Hazy purple tones are paired with subtle pinks, beiges, browns, and accents of vibrant green in one mask, alluding to a dream-like state and the natural world. Another mask uses muted orange and green tones along with a vibrant yellow, displaying a disruption of some natural state.
Knotted yarn and braided hair, as well as strings of chain and other small ornaments all provide a dynamic display of materiality when combined with Moon’s ceramic works. Jiha Moon has an extensive background in painting, which is certainly made evident in these works. Painterly brushstrokes flow together and traverse the ceramic forms, along with floral patterns, geometric designs, and text/symbols which allude to Moon’s heritage. While Moon’s sculptures are busy and loaded with strong imagery, they feel cohesive and function to tell a narrative of lived feelings and experience.
Your vibrant but sharp description of the pieces in Jiha Moon's exhibit are a solid foundation for this post. You go on to activate these descriptions, but what I'm missing is why; by the end of the piece I felt like I was delivered from point A directly to point C. I want to see how you made the connection between the hazy purple palette and a "dream-like state" or how yellow is a direct disruption of the "natural state" in a piece as described by its greens. This post would deeply benefit from a better description of how palette and choice of ornaments express displacement and a connection to Moon's heritage.
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