Starting from the series titled 'Lady-x', which was presented for the first time in 2015, JangPa has been seeking to reidentify her own identity as a woman. Through the series that followed, including 'X-Grulesque' and 'Brutal Skins', JangPa has examined and dismantled the conventional notion and (socio-cultural) implication of 'femininity' and brought the question to a more fundamental dimension.
Read More'Lady-x' exhibits in an extreme manner the sexual impulse of a women who is attracted to trees, a condition also called dendrophilia. Bold strokes and red hue give explicitness and grotesque to the body. First, this traces back and clears the long passage of defining and objectifying women which was imposed by the biased system and custom. Then it brings us to face the essence (ego) as it is, something that had been eliminated thereby.
Jangpa graduated from Seoul National University with a BFA in both Painting and double major in Aesthetics and an MFA in Painting. Jangpa has held solo exhibitons at KICHE, All timespace, Seoul (2022); IAP Warehouse Gallery, Incheon (2020); DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul (2018); DOOSAN Gallery, New York (2017); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Soeul (2016); Makeshop Art Space, Paju (2015); Gallery Zandari, Seoul (2015); Tv12 gallery, Seoul (2013); OCI Museum of ART, Seoul (2011); and Alternative Space HUT, Seoul (2009).
Jangpa has staged and participated in various group exhibitions at D/P, Seoul (2020); Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul (2019); Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul (2018); Art Space Pool, Seoul (2017); Seoul Musem of Art, Seoul (2015); DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul (2015); OCI Museum of ART, Seoul (2015); BMOCA, Paju (2015); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, among others. At the moment, Jang pa is a resident artist at Studio Nanji, her major book is The Utterances of the Painter(2020).
Courtsey KICHE
