Hejum Bä Biography

Hejum Bä approaches the traditional concept and medium of abstract painting with an alternative system of reflection. She combines motility, strong color relationships, and elements of language with abstract behavior in her work. In order to reveal the 'mobile image' in painting, Bä started by deconstructing scenes from her self-produced videos and rearranging them as paintings. Moving forward, Bä then transformed her work into explorations of motility using the properties and elements found within the canvas. In previous works, rather than the realistic rendering of the subject, Bä focused on the allegorical implication of how the colored surfaces can move structurally and be mobile through the confrontation of color. Bä questioned the perspective with which we recognize color surfaces in painting while presenting a resemblant subject, and showed a distancing from that. Perhaps the artist's perspective, identifying the difference that appears when facing an already familiar subject in painting, may be reflected in her work.