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become inseparable like love-making bodies.

It seems that this new series, Glitter Moment, is a turning point for Jung-eun Kim, who has been presenting
small scale works in many group exhibitions. The quite distinctive series reveal artist’s own voice and her rela-

tionship with external world and are made through photographing and videotaping sculptural pieces complet-
ed after a long tedious manual work. Jung-eun’s time that unravels the private and mundane, or seemingly girly

fantasy in a natural and convincing manner is reminiscent of other planetary time. Undaunted by confining
and controlling time zone of the Korean super-ego, she wants to spend her own time with an entity of desire.

The spangle colors of red, blue, green, yellow, violet, and etc suggest not only sensuality but also her own life
stories. There are some mistery and loneliness about her gesture. She started with photographing honestly

about herself and now embrace her own life completely as her own. Thus, living with spangled alter ego that
is similar to and is much more beautiful than her inner-self resembles the phenomenon of familiarity deriving

from unfamiliarity and thus, cannot but be imbued with a mystery and loneliness. The artist starts along with
her spangled avatar, the byproduct of the artist’s embracing her sensuality, a photographic journey, no matter

how uncertain, unfathomable the journey turns out to be. However, artist’s daily life is sparkled with momen-
tary glitter.