Kim Jiyeong

The artist tries to follow the rebelliousness of language that has slipped away from our tendencies toward statistical indication and centripetal force and has been sidelined to the margins. A Discordant Community, Story of Rebellious Words leads to some keywords and statements that indicate incidents caused by hatred, explosive language as an expression of fury, people who are displaced by others’ desires to live a better life, people (often called ‘we’) who are pushed into a state of disaster, and so on. This project is represented by various handicrafts including objects made by latch hook, needle point and cross-stitch. Craft here does not serve a decorative function as much as it is a potential social field and an experimental tool required for that social ground. 

A Discordant Community, Story of Rebellious Words proceeds as a collective project by people who met through a project by White Stork Nest (a local community based in Banghak-dong, Seoul). Participants of this project are mostly women ranging from their teens to their thirties. They first met each other at this workshop and formed a loose relationship through their handicraft work. They are all absorbed in their project while enjoying it. Individual absorption sometimes creates conflicts between members, though manual work in silence seems to ease any tensions.