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Two Korean girls and installation art in Hue

The Hue Festival has two new faces who have attracted audiences with their strange ideas. They are two South Korean artists, Choi Charlotte Jung Hee and Liilliil Kang So Young.

Choi Charlotte Jung Hee, dream reiterating artist

Choi Charlotte Jung Hee was born in New York and grew up in Europe. She returned to South Korea to study at a local university and earned a master’s degree for her topic of “Language Speculations within Paintings” in 2003.

She pursued a doctoral thesis on art at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Jung Hee is writing her graduation thesis named “Images of Reiterated Dreams”. She brought part of her thesis to Hue city and turned it into an installation artwork called “Tell me about your dream last night”.

Jung Hee’s artwork originated with a dream of her younger sister, Choi Jae Hee, 28, on March 9, 2006. In Jae Hee’s dream, she saw her older sister Jung Hee in the basement of a small house with a cat-like animal. A huge fish was floating out of Jung Hee’s mouth and inside the fish was a frog tattoo.

From her sister’s dream, Jung Hee collected her own and others’ dreams to render them in installation art. She used many kinds of materials, depending on her feelings, to reproduce dreams. Each dream is a personal story of a person, but Jung Hee describes them as fairytales.

Jung Hee chooses a small yard in the shade of an old tree on the campus of the Hue University of Art to display her artwork. The center of the work is a big fish hung in the tree. The fish is made of medical transfusion pipes. In the fish’s mouth are three small blue frogs. Under the dangling fish is a table, on which are two pairs of red lips. One pair of lips belongs to Jung Hee, which is inviting people to “write down one of your dreams and hang it in the shade of this tree”. The remaining lips are telling the dream of Jung Hee.

It seems that everybody who comes to see Jung Hee’s artwork is willing to tell her their dreams by writing them on pieces of paper and hanging them on the tree. Jung Hee will read them and continue reiterating these dreams in future artworks.

Liilliil Kang So Young enlightens history by numbers

Liilliil Kang So Young was born and grew up in Seoul, South Korea. She studied art at the Hong Ik University in Seoul and obtained a master’s degree from Ewha University in 1999. After that, she studied to become an animation director at the South Korean Movie Art Institute and became a lecturer of cartoon at Konkuk University.

Liilliil Kang So Young has won many domestic and international awards for her paintings and cartoon production. In 2006, her cartoon entitled “Plastic Art” was introduced at a short-film festival in Switzerland and earned praise from international experts.

She brought a visual art product to Hue Festival 2008, entitled “Illumination of Bygone Years”. Her artwork is shown in a small room on the third storey of the An Dinh Palace, which was built by King Khai Dinh for his son, Vinh Thuy, who was King Bao Dai later, the last King of Vietnam

The Korean artist uses a video-projector to show 23 numbers which are related to great events in Vietnam’s history (according to Liilliil Kang So Young’s thinking), since the Nguyen Dynasty was formed (1802) till Vietnam entered the Doi moi (Renovation) period in 1986. She calls these numbers historical numbers which reflect a bygone stage of Vietnam.

Liilliil Kang So Young’s numbers gradually appear on the floor and they are backed by sound made by Vietnamese traditional percussion and stringed-musical instruments.

She burnt some frankincense in the room to urge audiences to remember the most important historical moments of Vietnam. That’s Liilliil Kang So Young’s wish in coming to Vietnam to participate in the Hue Festival 2008.

(Source:VNN)

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Two Korean girls and installation art in Hue

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