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Science lights up the world, and while we say this is the age of science, I still wish that ghosts, spirits, and creatures from folklore existed. Inspired by the invisible microscopic world and the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, I imagine that “Ghosts” might exist as scattered fragments or wave, where the forces within their elements are broken. When we tell ghost stories, and our information creates meaningful patterns, entropy decreases just enough for these scattered pieces of Ghosts to momentarily gather together.
When a new ghost story becomes popular and many people talk about it, the tiny scattered particles could gather to form new shapes, influenced by our imagination.
This idea, however, brings up two problems. First, there’s the saying, “If you talk about ghosts, they come to listen.” If that’s true, even ten bodies wouldn’t be enough for a ghost to handle all the attention, especially in the summer, the peak season for horror films. My artwork Bikini Ghost shows ghosts who always look alike—sad and covered in white sheets—enjoying the summer in colorful clothes. The primary material, wax, reflects a childlike idea: a ghost’s freedom begins once the candle, often seen as a spooky prop in ghost stories, melts away.
The second issue is: what do we do with ghosts that were once briefly popular but then forgotten? Do they disappear like extinct animals if we stop talking about them? My works are an attempt to call these forgotten spirits back into the world. Through my drawings and sculptures, I bring back mysterious beings that were once popular but are now rarely spoken of.
My Ghost-Furniture series, for example, features strange-looking furniture and objects, altered with hands, feet, or tentacles. This work is an attempt to create mutations by blending discarded furniture with forgotten creatures like ghosts, monsters, or spooky noodles. The series began with the question: Do these beings, forgotten or worn out, disappear like extinct animals? I believe they inhabit abandoned furniture, much like the idea that ghosts dwell in old objects. Though the transformed objects are no longer functional, the ghosts and abandoned furniture become art, mutants adapting to the world in new forms.
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Jiwon Song
Born in Busan, South Korea currently based in Munich, Germany
Education
2012-2017 Ewha Womans University, Bachelor of fine art, Painting
2021 – Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Class Prof. Pamela Rosenkranz, Munich, Germany
Exhibitions
2024
– Sleep!, Group Exhibition, Raum 004, Munich, Germany
– Flüstern, Group Exhibition, Galerie Filter & Gräf, TGB Art Projects, Munich, Germany
– Galerie Kaufhaus, Group-Pop-Up Exhibition, Karlsplatz 21-14, Munich, Germany
– mutant Maker’s Wunderkammer, Group Exhibition, AdBK München, Munich, Germany – EX STASIS, Group Exhibition, AdBK München, Munich, Germany
–mutant Maker zero, Group Exhibition, KUNZT 66, Munich, Germany
–How to ___ Baby, Group Exhibition, NODEPRESSIONROOM, Munich
–You’ re always right, Group Exhibition, Shaere 0C34, Munich
–After every candle melts, Solo Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2023 – Interpolations, Group Exhibition, AdBK München, Munich, Germany
2022 – Blood of a poet bar, Group Exhibition, AdBK München, Munich, Germany
2019 – Cheonbyeongpunggeong, Group Exhibition, 4 Log art space, Seoul, South Korea 2018 – Private Showroom, one to one exhibition project in motel, Seoul, South Korea
Scholarship/ Funding
2024 – Stipendien für ausländische Studierende des Bayerischen Staatsministriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst
2024 – Oskar-Karl-Forster-Stipendium-Fonds 2024
2024 – Akademieverein Projektförderung
Residency
2024 – Künstlerstadt Kalbe 10th Wintercampus