Ewho Gallery Presents Global Art Project: Frida Kahlo - Love & Tragedy by Seruni Bodjawati & Higi Jung
“FRIDA
KAHLO: LOVE & TRAGEDY”
Seruni
Bodjawati and Higi Jung
Essay
by Seruni Bodjawati
Man is a mystery. Although his physical action can be read but the motion of the soul is unpredictable where it leads. Within humans contained possibilities that are endless. If a human is being compared to universe, the human self is like a small cosmos and the universe is a big cosmos. Remarkably, the big cosmos can be stored in a small cosmos. The human mind itself, if it is compacted and summarized can be smaller than a grain of sand. And when it is deployed can be wider than the universe. Yes, man is a great mystery, for himself or for others.
Higi Jung tried to interpret the figure of Frida Kahlo with the sharpness point of view that is left loose. Excerpts meaning embodied in the works of photography. Her artistic presentation technique is unique. She presents a psychological analysis as an expression of short poems. It is fresh with surprises that are igniting enlightenment. The shortness of expression precisely impresses the longevity of distraction power in creativity that is difficult to be measured. Frida’s existence as a source of inspiration is described as eternal riddle. Man is a big question mark. His imperfection becomes the falsification of his wholeness. The secret of the noise is located on the edge of silence. The maturity is within the simplicity reflexion. Photographic works of Higi Jung become an unexpected appeal precisely because its expression is very close to everyday reality. Similar wonders to the heartbeat. It is fused in the body until it has palpable presence.
Higi Jung was born in Uncheon, Kunggi-do, on December 5, 1986. She ever stayed in Moscow, Russia, in 1991-1993. Until now she is living in Seoul, South Korea. In 2009 she graduated from Chung-Ang University in creative writing and photography. Getting to know Frida Kahlo at the age of 17 through the film titled Frida. Her curiosity with the Mexican legend was made her continuously hunting information via internet and books. Finally, the figure of Frida is used as a source of ideas for work, especially in photography.
Frida Kahlo is known in the art world because of her life history was full of colour and wave. She was born on July 6, 1907 and died on July 13, 1954. Living amid the roar of the Mexican revolution made her experienced tragic events. A great traffic accident made her suffering pains for life. Her marriage with a muralist, Diego Rivera, was widening inner wounds as well as boosting her creativity. Her affair with a communist leader, Trotsky, became a glamorous myth. Her attitude was reckless, with the lion guts, banging on the walls of the establishment. In short, her life story is as important to talk about as the awesomeness of her artworks. Recorded Frida made 143 paintings, 55 of which are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic depiction of the physical and psychological wounds. She insisted, "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
Equally fascinated by Frida Kahlo, I agreed to collaborate with Higi Jung in the project Frida Kahlo: Love & Tragedy, supported by Ewho Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Since high school, starting when I was 15 years old, I have created dozens of paintings with the main object of Frida Kahlo figure. Working together with Higi Jung would certainly be an important record for both our artistic journeys.
There are seven pieces of my paintings I created in this art project. Five pieces sized 200 x 145 cm; A Couple of Rebels, Glimpses of Morning Star, Children of Heaven, The Legend Vanished in Memories and The Silent World of Frida. Two others are Conquering the World sized 200 x 300 cm and Opera Pablo Pickahlo sized 250 x 200 cm. The media of all my artworks are acrylic on canvases. My inclination is to tell by the winged language. I see the figure of Frida Kahlo in my artworks as an existence plagued with gloom fate. Full of problems, rebelling to grey fate, continuously searching for herself holding a twist of death on her back. As human with multidimensional characters, the figure is hammered with a big question mark that will never go over answered. I also idealize it by intentionally increasing the volume of humanity. In order for the dramatic aspects that were created can be sticking sharper. Decorative technique is quite dominating the whole field of the canvases. Surrealistic atmosphere is spreading in the stern expression. The power of colours is slightly muted to strengthen the suggestive power and fantasy games.
By featuring the clarity of mind, Higi Jung created eight photographic works. Two of them are self-portraits. Four of them were shot with a model of South Korean actress, Jaehwa Kim, her own cousin. And two works were shot with a model of a Javanese woman, Darajati Pertiwi. She shot the six works in South Korea. Two works titled Women F # 5 Pink Tears and Women F#6 Connivance were created in Indonesia when she was visiting Yogyakarta. In the series of Women F, summarized eight works titled Spring Fever, Do not be Afraid, Summer House, Ponds in the Forest, On the Carpet with Tiny Ducks, Pink Tears, Connivance, and Gaze. Thick eyebrows that characterize Frida Kahlo character are imposed on the face of the model to build a new character. It is an affirmation of the view that women are strong, independent and having unbeatable freedom. This is a maturation of culture that tends to push the perception that women should be gentle and pure.
At last, my collaboration with Higi Jung will be a silent dialogue that will never end. From two different and far places we look toward a same point. Although the direction of our view is the same but our minds are wandering into the wilderness that much different. Indeed, a friendship becomes beautiful when each person is left to be himself to the fullest.
Yogyakarta, 23 October 2012
Korean & English essays after the jump-break section:
Frida Kahlo : Love & Tragedy - by Higi Jung - 2012
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Frida
Kahlo : Love & Tragedy
Death
will be one of tragedies that bother humans. Sometime, humans get
forced to die or choose to die. But, how many people in the world
would have exact answers to death. The death means eternal freedom in
time that humans are alive. Montaigne, M said from <<Les
Essais>> that anticipating death is anticipating freedom. He
wrote that Understanding death allows us to be free from
subordination and imprisonment. The death is destination that is
given to all of us, and no one can go against it. The question “where
has we come from and where are we going to?” will last over
generations and generations as long as human exists. Seruni Bodjawati
who works on the project with me says that “human is mystery.”
This saying is on the basis of a belief about human mentality that is
compressed as tiny as a speck of dust. While we can read physical
human actions, we cannot anticipate where movements of soul go.
According to her, tragedy of human is mystery in a mental context and
flow of the consciousness links to confusion between live and death.
Seruni
and I are working for the project on the basis of Frida Kahlo who had
to live a life embracing a tragedy. Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacan,
Mexico in 1907. Frida means freedom in German. Frida who was eager
for freedom just like her name ironically had gone through lots of
moments of death in her life and underwent 32 times of surgeries.
These tragedies include a congenital uterine anomaly and miscarriage.
She was incubating all the pains of destiny, but she had never
despaired at the moment of the crisis and even more, she always
sincerely faced her life. “Two of Frida were always fighting. One
was dead Frida and the other was alive Frida.”. She came back and
forth from the life to the death, so there are two sides of life and
death in her paintings. She was acknowledged as a surrealist from
Picasso, Duchamp and Kandinsky, but she had stuck to her a Mexican
root and inclination. She mentioned that she only draws things that
came across her mind without any other meaning. She was bleeding and
deeply wounded in many of her works. While she was crying and
despairing in pain, her eyes were clear and strong. Figures in her
works, who calmly stand with their dark eyebrows, stubbornly closed
mouth and poker faces, seem shinier in front of their misfortune and
death. Birth, Marriage and death are the most important three facts
in Frida Kahlo’s life. In 1984, Mexican government designated her
painting as a national treasure.
Seruni
Bodjawati was conceived from Sri harjanto Sahid and Wara Anindya in
Sri Harjanto Sahid, Indonesia in September, 1st in 1991. Both her
parents are painters in Indonesia. Her mother, Wara Anindya is
considered the Indonesian Frida Kahlo. Seruni, who was born into a
painter’s family, started drawing when she was a 10 month old baby
and has gotten accepted into ISI(Indonesia Institute of the Arts) in
2009. She has participated in lots of international group exhibits
and received an award as the most inspiring woman in Arts &
Culture field from the frist lady, Ani Yudohoyono and Indonesian
magazine, Kartini in this year, 2012. Also, she writes regarding
feminism and arts.
Frida
Kahlo’s whole life has come to Seruni as a tremendous inspiration.
Seruni has been putting Frida Kahlo who had a depressing life into
her canvas. She has chosen seven works for this collaboration: They
include < A Pair of Rebels 200x145cm >, <Glimpses of Morning
Star / 200x145cm >, <Children of Heaven / 200x145cm >, <The
Legend Vanished in Memories / 200x145cm>, <The Silent World of
Frida / 200x145cm >and <Conquering the World /200x300cm> and
<Opera Pablo Pickahlo / 250x200cm>. Seruni has drawn Frida in a
way that is continuously looking for herself: grabbing her twisted
death with a darkened destiny. Sometimes, she projected Frida who
carries a big questions mark onto herself. That seems to be looking
for answers to life with freedom, but eventually seems to face the
reality of the life without getting the answers. One of features of
her styles in her works is black outline. The black is a color that
blocks a flow of unconstrained emotions. That reflects
self-suppressions generated by fear or anxiety and shows
psychological withdrawals. The objects that are locked within the
tick and black outlines are only circulating inside the frames. This
black also adds classic heaviness onto the paintings. Additionally,
combination of achromatic colors and primary colors is fantastic but
exudes painful and unfortunate aura. There is no blank space in her
paintings. In fact, the backgrounds of her paintings are dramatically
full of the figures with grotesque faces. The objects jammed in the
paintings seem to fall out of them. When actually standing in front
of her works, I feels like standing in front of a real life. The
lives look like a massive chunk that is liked by myriad incidents.
That is also because of the size of the canvases that are big enough
to overwhelm our heights. The big size seems to emphasize the lives
in the paintings. The subjects’ facial expression, colors, size,
and formations create surrealistic atmosphere. She casts a bold
question on the nature of human beings. The life is a mystery that
can never give us an answer. Humans who also live that life are left
as a big question.
Frida
had drawn 55 pieces of self-portrait paintings, because herself was
the subject that Frida knows the most well. Maybe, she was trying to
prove her existence through her paintings. On the similar side, I
took a photograph of self-portrait, <Woman F, 2009> as a start.
Photos, <#0 Do not Afraid> and <#1 Spring Fever> are
self-portraits. I have made 8 pieces of works including three models
and myself. Numbers following by # means the chronological order of
the works created. All of the lives have different aspects; therefore
whether these #s are attached to any of work pieces, they will play
each own role creating their own stories.
So,
the contexts of stories related to the # numbers do not really exist.
Alphabet
F in <Women F> is acronym for Female, also an open letter
standing for freedom. At that time creating my first work, I was
making myself unhappy. To me who doesn’t have a dream, the future
was always something pessimistic and I was feeling unstable about
myself.
I
felt that the future was robbing me. I needed answers to my life that
is full of questions. To do so, I had to find myself first. I was
desperately searching for my identity and drew Frida Kahlo’s thick
and dark eyebrows on my face as if I disguised as her. It seemed to
give me some power like lucky charms. I wanted to have Frida Kahlo’s
spiritual power, who didn’t lose her voice in midst of her unstable
life that constantly companies death. She loved herself so much that
she could even exchange her life with death. I felt that part of my
life that is lacking could be filled with strong energy thanks to
her. Then after, I started wondering what energy will strike if I
draw Frida’s eyebrows on other girls’ faces. Therefore, the
models’ images have become very important inspiration. Kim, Jaehwa
and Pertiwi, Derajati who were models for my project actively pioneer
their life being devoted to their own lives instead of being
pessimistic or discourage about their lives. Their these aspects
appeared as tenacity on their faces. While working on the project,
the models’ eyes were tenacious and firm. <#2 Summer House –
She had a shot of tequila and watered the flowers that she couldn’t
take care of>, <#3 Ponds in the forest – She was crying with
the water>, <#4 On the carpet with tiny ducks>, <#7 Gaze>
was worked with Kim, Jaehwa and <#5 Pink Tears> and <#6
Connivance> were shot with Darajati in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
While the images shot in different places respectably contain their
own different times and stories, when they get all together, they
become developed to women’s stories, who represent Women F. Models
and stories in this project will be various, but will be filled with
humans’ strong energy that is eager for freedom.
If
I am asked what will be left in our project discarding all of the
components in our works, that will be Frida Kahlo’s essence not her
figuration. Frida Kahlo was a human who had to live her life
embracing love and pain and facing death at the same time being long
for freedom. She was tracing her existence in the middle of irony
between life and death whose answers cannot be aware of. Seruni’s
and my path of works to find the answers to questions of unstable and
ambiguous lives won’t be changed.
Jung,
Higi. November, 2012.
Translation
Talent Donation : Saerom Park
See the artworks of Seruni Bodjawati and Higi Jung on Ewho Gallery's link: http://blog.naver.com/ewhogallery
See the artworks of Seruni Bodjawati and Higi Jung on Ewho Gallery's link: http://blog.naver.com/ewhogallery