Discovering the Scenes of My Room in Drama

Artist Im Sunny has been creating self-replicative self-portraits by projecting herself onto popular media outlets like movies, news, and dramas. In this exhibition, the artist presents works that superimpose her image onto scenes from her favorite dramas.

These works, which differ significantly from the original dramas' narratives and flow, are reconstructed from the artist's everyday stories and then transferred to canvas. The artist actively explores herself, becoming the protagonist of the drama and discovering herself in various situations.

Scenarios on television bring to life things we cannot experience in real life, creating a space with a powerful sense of believability that transcends reality. Therefore, television dramas serve as a catalyst for contemporary culture and a source of everyday narratives.

In her works, the artist creates a theatrical space where fiction and truth, public and private, and virtual and real, transcend the real and virtual worlds. By combining the personal realm of the writer watching a television drama with the public realm of mass media, the author reconstructs the popularized places in the television drama into spaces containing the writer's personal stories, and by finding commonalities with himself in the lives of the characters and generalizing them, he reads the hidden side of modern people and the narrative of contemporary culture.

References

• CAN Foundation