The sculptures of Ham jin are the harvest of your research on life and humanity, an effort to transcend limits and structures, both physical and emotional.
This artist, born in 1978 in the heart of Seoul, South Korea, found success in 1999, when he made his solo debut presenting microscopic clay figures, which not only impressed because they were practically the size of a fingernail, but also because they displayed an obsessive and personal vision of the world at their core.
Influenced by his memories of walking in the mountains, drawing mushrooms, and longing for the essence of youthful innocence, Ham began to design microcosm full of their own stories and logic, transmitting concepts of duality, terms of oppositions and confrontations such as life and death, good and evil, the human and the monstrous, past and present, and fiction and reality, becoming the voice of the unspeakable and unrepresentable.
Source: Tack
Inviting to see darkness as part of human existence and psyche, unleashing a series of stories that make our creativity flourish, as well as our ability to accept and nurture different ways of seeing and exploring life, the work of this unusually charming Korean artist It is also revealed as fundamentally self-referential, in the sense that the same author can be observed within his own miniature sculptures, reflecting in turn, his most natural and innate feelings.
Ultimately, the sculptures of Ham jin are the harvest of his research on life and humanity in a broad sense, in an effort to crossing the limits and structures of the stream.
Source: Burger collection
His pieces are often characterized by an endearing grotesque and carefully occupy the audience for a moment while they are invited to another world, one of dazzling imagination, perhaps to reveal the crisis or loss of oneself in contemporary times and that the world goes beyond our own perception.
The artist continues to be active in his studio Seoul.
