I seek to formulate a voice, with a hope to communicate with my surrounding.
I create with an intention to connect with the audience. As an Asian female living in a multicultural society, my desire to assimilate results in the act of sharing stories. To convey the complexity of a displaced culture, I employ narrative strategies and self-referential contents in a wide range of media such as sculpture, installation, performance, video, photography, and drawing.
I mainly use colour and my body as materials to convey naivety and fantasy. With vibrant colour, I am able to convert the absurdity of race and multiculturalism into reminiscent tales, inviting viewers to experience a different culture that fosters consciousness beyond cultural stereotypes. As I search to construct a female persona in our society, my work requires live actions and public participations blending boundaries between audience and artist. I employ cultural icons with objects that recall my childhood memories, and my search for identity takes a complete shape when viewers interact with and/or participate in the work.
Started from my personal experiences of Diaspora, my quest for a complete cultural integration has taken an interesting journey of valuable exchanges. Through my practice, I as an artist continue to situate a meaning to my identity and hope to raise cultural awareness by inciting a ground of understanding.
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Korea-born Canadian, Jihee
Min explores art as means to formulate a voice for an identity. Min
often includes herself as a posing sculpture to respond to her displaced
existence, and her yearning for childhood creates an imaginary
character that relates across the complexity of time and space of a
visual minority in Canadian society.
Jihee
Min obtained MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University in May 2008 and
BFA with Honors in Sculpture & Installation at Ontario College of
Art & Design in May 2005. She has received numerous awards and
scholarships for her work including various grants from
Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council, the Concordia MFA Studio Arts Award from
Concordia University, the Sir Edmund Walker Scholarship, the Carmen
Lamanna Scholarship and the Sumo Art & Technology award from Ontario
College of Art & Design.
For more, visit
www.jiheemin.com
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