With You 17 Painting

Hong, Ji-young is an artist thriving to negate prejudice through art, using the concept of thermal imaging cameras to remove "epidermis" and instead focus on the inner appearance of the world. ​ I try to think outside the box and view the inner workings of humankind differently and interpret in my artworks with various colors. Today, mass media intends to brainwash appearance-oriented views (lookism) to people in a subtle and unconscious way. Like this, it is the word “epidermis” that I intended to delete external information right from the point in which outer beauty is about to be carved as a generalized image. This way, my epidermis is changed as a superficial instrument wishing to delete the tool of a ludic act. Hereby, my works starts from “Epidermis Mart” where epidermis can be purchased right outside the door. In other words, my works explored the essence by way of expressing virtual world of which the images of external figures are already deleted. ​The series “Epidermis World” and “Epidermis TV” based on thermal sensor(imaging) cameras which started from 2014 want to tell about the current era of media. My artworks entitled ‘Epidermis World’ have been motivated from the image taken by thermal imaging camera. The world we see in our eyes has been overlapped with the image shown in a form of thermal imaging. The bright and dark colors of thermal imaging shows the inner side of the object and the external appearance has been represented by the actual colors that are visible to us. In other words, I tried to remove prejudice among people based on race and gender and focus more on the inner side of us by exploring with various forms of color palette. The world seen by thermal imaging cameras becomes absolutely simplified in ambiguous colors and forms by the heat and it does not depend on infinite information poured from the media. Thus, my work shows the world beyond race and gender and explores the inner side of humankind with various colors.