ART TAIPEI 2024 | B-tree gallery

IURUM

Life in ice cream_Melt

Colored epoxy resin, human miniature, wood

6.5 x 17.5 x 2cm (Including frame 26x31x4cm) *each

2023

The artist is summoning happiness by positively reconstructing the anxious and dark memories latent within modern people, and is expanding the scope of she's artworks in various ways using the shape of sweet gustatory objects that gave she happiness as a motif. This new artworks will feature a variety of works, including Dalgona, a new type of healing bear called Makaeto, Sweet Heart, and Melt Ice Cream. The 'Dalgona' series presented in this solo exhibition combines the sweet and crunchy dalgona that someone's remember making and eating as a child and the toys that who played with, summoning up a scene from she's happy memories.The artist recognizes both a symbolic medium that brings up latent memories and a sweet gustatory object, thereby saving happy memories forever. It provides sweet healing by reorganizing negative emotional memories into positive ones. The various materials and forms of daily life expressed in the sweet artwork seem to contain the artist's intention, and when several works are displayed together, a sense of cozy happiness is added to the space.

 

life in ice cream 'SWEETCH' is a compound word of 'SWEET' meaning 'sweet' and 'SWITCH' meaning 'conversion', meaning 'switching to sweetness'. This means a positive transformation of the latent idea image, that is, a positive reconstruction of memory. This refers to positively reconstructing the anxious and dark memories latent inside, using 'SWEETCH', a gustatory object reminiscent of the sweet taste that gave me happiness as a child. In other words, it is to bring out negative latent memories or the past, which is continuously created and passed, one by one and summoned them to happiness. The latent memories of these negative emotions, that is, negative ideological images, are not just sorrow and pain caused by traumatic events, but also include ordinary daily anxiety from the uncertain life of a finite human being. Ice cream is a gustatory object that evokes a sweet feeling of happiness and brings out a positive conceptual image, and the human miniatures in the ice cream are elements that symbolize a fragile life in a finite life, including anxiety, sadness, and fear. When these two meanings are perceived at the same time, Proust signification takes place and inverse conditions are naturally formed therein, and the conversion into a sweet and positive idea image, that is, ‘SWEETCH’ takes place. It is to summon happinessby putting the anxious daily life of a human in sweet ice cream.