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Jae-won Hwang

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FFanG’s World – Garden of Imagination

January 2, 2025 –
January 18, 2025

OMAE Gallery invites you to explore FFanG’s World, a realm where reality and imagination seamlessly intertwine. In this vividly personal universe, FFanG—the central character and storyteller—navigates between two- and three-dimensional forms, reflecting the artist’s evolving thoughts and experiences over time. Rather than a fleeting daydream or complete fantasy, FFanG’s World is a “shallow imagined world,” one tethered to reality yet shaped by personal perception. It is a space where past, present, and future coexist, serving as both the conceptual origin of the artist’s practice and the driving force behind her creative life.

 

Among the sunlit spaces of this imaginary garden, the blooming of flowers becomes a powerful metaphor for human life. From childhood, likened to a seed taking root, to full blossom symbolizing self-discovery and influence, each stage of growth is rendered in ceramic works that endure heat and fragility—just like life itself. The tangle of leaves and stems reveals inner conflict and personal growth, while the unfading flowers represent the strength to embrace both beauty and impermanence. In FFanG’s World, blooming is not only a celebration of life’s peak moments, but also a reflection on their inevitable fading—revealing the duality of joy and mortality that shapes us all.