We look at both ourselves in a mirror as well as the faces of innumerable other people every day. The images of ourselves and others that we come across in daily life appear familiar and yet unfamiliar every now and then. We are often in a repetition or intersection of such experiences. The subject matter of “face” acts as a sign to unmask one’s identity in works by Kim Na-ri and Jung Jung-yeop and serves as an opportunity for viewers to have such familiar or unfamiliar experiences.

Kim Na-ri has continued to work on ceramic heads and busts that stare straight ahead. The faces she makes from concrete shapes molded out of clay are images of happenstance whose results she has never predicted. These faces are thought to be something universal found somewhere in our lives while they at times appear alien when examined closely. Kim’s ceramic works give preference to our experience of facing oneself as a sign others see. Jung Jung-yeop’s mirror works, on the other hand, denote our experience with communication as seen from the viewer’s point of view. Jung raises objects laden with others’ reminiscences to the level of art by his delicate hand based on mirrors he was given or collected himself. Placed in the Lobby Gallery after several exhibit spaces, a hand-stained mirror that reflects someone’s face welcomes new viewers.

The works of the two artists we come across here now are expanded and reproduced when they are in sync with the audience’s eyes. It is our expectation that this exhibition will be an opportunity to consider how we perceive our own images, crossing over our experience of encountering seemingly familiar and unfamiliar faces.