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Min-su Ha’s Installation Art: Focusing on the Small Groups ‘META-VOX’ and ‘30 carat’

  • Journal of History of Modern Art
  • 2021, (50), pp.79-111
  • Publisher : 현대미술사학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
  • Received : October 25, 2021
  • Accepted : December 5, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

Jin Sol Shim 1

1반클리프 아펠, 아트 앤 컬처

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ABSTRACT

Min-su Ha (b. 1961) is a Korean artist based in Seoul. This article explores her development of a unique visual language through examining her artworks from the 1980s to the 1990s focusing on the small groups META-VOX and 30 carat. METAVOX is a ‘tal-modern’ small group, which aimed to overcome Korean modern aesthetics that prevailed in the 1970s. During the META-VOX period, Ha sought to express her own experience and feelings through the medium of objects and installation. In the 1990s, Ha took the initiative in forming 30 carat, which consisted of ten women artists in their early thirties. Through seven exhibitions from 1993 to 2000, Ha rigorously delved into subjects such as femininity and masculinity, Koreanness, and social and environmental issues. While 30 carat was one of the most significant small group movements in the 1990s, which took a different path from the feminist art movement affiliated with Minjung art in the 1980s, it has not yet received proper critical attention. This article points out that the blank space in Korean feminist art history caused by the absence of feminist discourse bringing women’s personal experience into the political realm, and relocates 30 carat in the context of Korean feminist art history.

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