TITEL: Hair Kite

This artwork captures the artist's most primal experience of "feeling the wind" and visually
expresses her deep longing for her mother. Two and a half years ago, during their last
meeting, her mother touched her short hair and expressed a wish to braid it when it grew
long. Since then, the artist has been growing her hair in anticipation of their reunion.

In creating the kite, the artist meticulously tied each string to a bamboo frame by hand. She
braided the remaining long strings, envisioning her mother braiding her hair when they meet
again. The ends of the braided strings are adorned with "daenggi" (Korean traditional hair
ribbons) made by Korean silk that given to her by her mother. And on the “daenggi”, the
words "UNTIL MEET MY MOM” are embroidered.

BIO: Jiyoung Kim (1994~)

Born in Bucheon, South Korea, to a Hanbok(Korean traditional costume) designer mother and
a construction industry professional father. Jiyoung Kim was naturally influenced by her
parents’ and got interests in art, design, and craft from an early age. Strongly influenced by
her mother, she began studying fashion design in Milan but soon changed her career path to
tailoring, and she graduated from Istituto Secoli in 2017. However, driven by the commercial
limitations of fashion and an unknown yearning for creativity, she began studying fine arts in
Antwerp and she graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2023.

Jiyoung integrates her cultural background, her expertise in tailoring, and her unique artistic
perspective to create her works. She does not confine herself to specific materials, instead
exploring the delicate essence of various materials with a profound curiosity for craft
techniques. Starting with her graduation project, "My Measuring Tools," she continues to
investigate the symbolic and performative languages that mediate interactions between
individuals, and between individuals and society, or between artists and society.