Entering the border between Cute and Discomfort – Unrest and Damage – South Korean artist Jinjoo JoThe illustrations of illustrating express the thin relationship with nature and a personal reaction to a wide -published tragedy.
AngerA series of Jo started in 2020, portrays young girls who interact with insects, who are disturbingly large and impressive. “I have always loved nature, but in this series I chose to use insects as a metaphor for predators,” she says. “The young girls in the illustrations stare straight ahead while insects swarm endlessly around them. Sometimes I see myself as a passive witness of their suffering; At other times I get into the artwork and I become one of them. ‘
Most of the works that are seen here belong to Blue anger, It continues to evolve. Dish in black, white and a cerulean blue hue, the first piece was made in direct answer to the so covered Nde room Case, a horrible cyber sex that took place between 2018 and 2020. “At the time I was overwhelmed by anger and despair,” the artist tells Colossal. “The case concerned the sexual exploitation of at least 70 minor victims, who were abused both online and offline.”
Anger Serves as a way to process the energy -repellent emotion, in a sense that create a kind of tribute to the young people who were the victim. Recent works deviate from the theme of Insect-As-Predator, who returns control to the young girls who, instead, communicate in a pond with a more than life-sized moth or side by side in an enlightened room with fluttering insects that have been drawn to the light.
Jo mainly uses colored pencils and graphite and occasionally absorbs black ballpoint pens for dark details. She then scans her drawings to complete them digitally with the help of procreate and photoshop.
Jo has been working for several years on a graphic novel related to continuous scientific research, which is currently in pre-production. She has also worked on an essay about her pregnancy experiences, which she hopes to compile in a small book. Find more about the artist website And Instagram.
