Ji Su Kwak

Girls (series), 2025

Girls (series)

Found images, paper, mesh, beads
4 pieces; each 35 x 24 cm (framed)
2025

This collage series shares some of the same materials used in Snatch! Between Pain and Glory. It reworks commercially consumed images of young women and girls, drawing on Yoshitomo Nara’s iconic portraits. By combining visual elements like infected eyes, endoscopic imagery, and fragments of brain tissue, the works create grotesque female figures beneath a cute and playful surface.

〈Snatch! Between Pain and Glory〉에 사용된 일부 재료를 공유하는 콜라주 시리즈로, 상업적으로 소비되는 젊은 여성과 소녀의 이미지를 변형해 구성했다. 요시토모 나라의 소녀 시리즈를 오마주하되, 눈병에 걸린 눈, 내시경 이미지, 시체의 뇌 등 파편화된 신체 이미지를 결합해, 귀엽고 발랄한 분위기 속에 그로테스크한 여성 형상을 만들어냈다.

Miss Wide Mouth, 2025, found images, paper, aluminum mesh, metal chain, beads, 35 × 24 cm

Little Blushing Girl, 2025, found images, paper, acrylic mesh, stickers, beads, 35 × 24 cm

All-nighter Girl, 2025, found images, paper, copper mesh, beads, 35 × 24 cm

The Brain One, 2025, found images, paper, copper mesh, beads, 35 × 24 cm

Exhibition view of CORPUS at The Store Namsan, Seoul, Korea