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What are you doing?
by Gallery Dam
Location: Gallery Dam
Artist(s): Sunmoo
Date: 2 Feb - 16 Feb 2013

Artist Sunmoo who escaped from North Korea works in Korea and this is his 11th solo exhibition. Breaking away from self-reliance ideology in North Korea, he draws the desiderative utopia. Also, he shows conflicts in a completely different environment among his youth. The art work ‘What are you doing’, Sunmoo asks us what we are doing. Additionally, including ‘Letter’, drawing a letter he cannot send to mother, 14 works will be exhibited. He wishes conflicts between classes Korean society has, including division of territory. He has received a lot of attentions from international media and documentary, like BBC, Voice of America, New York Times and so on.

"While eyes are the main object of his paintings, paradox and satire are the main way of expressing his ideas. The reason why he chooses such methods is in the fact that there is no more effective way of criticizing the society than paradox and satire.

Sun Mu means that ‘there is no line’ in Chinese letters; that is, he hopes that the dividing line between South and North Korea is erased. He is the man who is desperately eager for the unification of South and North Korea. His paintings look so impressive because such desperate desire is apparently expressed in them. Apart from to which genre an art work belongs, all the masters went through the stage of expressing his own experience and trauma in their works. This is a kind of gateway to the more mature level as an artist. In this context, Sun Mu has developed and will do step by step. His power to paint and develop looks possible by his power across the death line. So far as this power is not dissipated, his works will advance more and more." 
- Byoung-Kyo Min (The former senior editor at Artrade)

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