송 하린
Harin Song (b.South Korea)
is a visual artist whose work scope varies, orbiting around her interaction with the innate raw qualities of materials like plastic, steel, and fiber. With a labor-intensive, craft-oriented manipulation of material, her work has the characteristics of crossing across the categories of drawing, painting, textile art, sculpture, and installation.
Repetition is apparent within her meditative, almost ritualistic art-making process. She attempts to break the association between the natural physicality of an object and the meaning bestowed artificially throughout the history. e.g., she melts acrylic paint to underscore its plastic physicality while maintaining its illusionary effect.
Concrete Poetry is another practice of dealing with the fragility of life, mundane thinking, and relationship to others from her nomadic everyday experiences. They influence her art-making process by reflecting on how she treats the materials.
She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also attended a Master of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited throughout the galleries, museums and art centers in the United States and South Korea including; Fort Worth Community Arts Center in Texas, Woman Made Gallery, Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, Evansville Museum in Evansville, Peoria Playhouse Children’s Museum in Peoria, Gallery Insaart, Temiorae Art Center, CICA Museum in Korea, Starta Arta Gallery in New York. Harin is currently working and living in Seoul, South Korea.
Artist Statement
loathe life.
of it’s worthlessness
I can’t help but
의미
의미
그놈의 의미
at this moment
when Although is all around
cannot favor it
But resist it either.
Now, it’s all about although.
Torture it.Torture it.
kill it.
kiss it with qualms
of it’s worthlessness
I can’t help but
의미
의미
그놈의 의미
at this moment
when Although is all around
cannot favor it
But resist it either.
Now, it’s all about although.
Torture it.Torture it.
kill it.
kiss it with qualms