Heejo Kim
Whispers
Oil on canvas
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“The figures in my oil paintings, their facial expressions are hidden; in some paintings, their mouths and eyes are missing, only noses and ears are shown. It’s as if this is a way of keeping their secrets, or as if they are asleep with closed eyes.…The self-imposed solitude and the desire for connection are incompatible, but they build a new communication way through their cautious body language. Tenderness, to quote Roland Barthes, is an ‘infinite metonymy’ for love. The figures’ gentle gestures are a metonym of their desire to be loved by others.“
— Heejo Kim
About the artist
Heejo Kim
American