L@OnView | Jessica Wee: 《许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves》

Jessica Wee: 许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves

艺术家：Jessica Wee

展览地点：曼哈顿64号摆也街画廊展厅 | 64A Bayard Street, New York, NY 10013

展览时间：5月5日至6月12日

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LATITUDE画廊正在展出韩裔美籍艺术家Jessica Wee个展许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêve中，展出了艺术家的12余幅近期作品。艺术家通过使用融合韩国传统桑纸与画布的材料表达超现实的梦境，以及自己与知己的相处时间。因为其自身独特对文化认同的理解；以及与挚友Seulgi 在纽约的生活时光对Jessica 影响，继而推动了Jessica转化这段不安定的生活经历和之后的回想为作品基础。这些精心描绘的亲密瞬间组成了Jessica Wee第一个个人展览——许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves。展览于两周前成功开幕，并将持续对公众开放于6月12日闭幕。

Jessica Wee: 许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves

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LATITUDE Gallery is exhibiting 12 works by artist Jessica Wee. The artist uses a blend of traditional Korean mulberry paper and canvas to express surreal dreams and his time with his close friends. Because of her own unique understanding of cultural identity; As well as her life in New York with her friend Seulgi, Jessica was influenced and promoted to transform her unstable life into work. These carefully portrayed intimate moments form Jessica Wee's first Solo exhibition Plusieurs Rêves. The exhibition closes on June 12.

Jessica Wee: 许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves

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艺术家Jessica Wee曾在加拿大、法国、意大利、美国等地工作学习和生活过，是一名地地道道“流浪”在外的新一代亚裔艺术家，正因如此她对自身民族文化认同的概念有着复杂而不同的理解。

然而，她对“家乡/故乡”的断断续续的陌生感觉和对冲突文化的迷失给了她一份意想不到的礼物，她个人及时行乐、边走边追溯的方式。作为她旅居经历的一个分支，她创造了由不同的文化和身份组成的多彩世界，碎片记忆和身份。

As a diasporic Asian artist of Korean origin who has lived in Canada, France, Italy, and the U.S., Jessica has always had a complex relationship with the notion of cultural identity. Yet, her discontinued sense of “homeland” and disorientation from the clashing cultures have given her an unexpected gift, her own ways of carpe diem. As a ramification of her diasporic experience, she creates worlds consisting of different cultures and identities fragmented memories and identities where she inhabits multiple characters and places all at once.

Une jeune fille bien comme il le faut (A good girl), 2019

20 x 22 inches

布面油画｜Oil on Canvas

四年多在意大利和法国的传统油画训练让艺术家Jessica无比熟悉西方油画中超现实主义和梦境主体的环境描写。这是Jessica的一幅作为墨丘利-众神信使的自画像，以裸替女孩尴尬、犹豫、且不适的用传统油画模特姿势站在梦幻岛屿的景象作为主体，Jessica旨在表达这种个人经历所导致的身份与文化冲突给她带来的不解和困难。

Jessica Wee: 许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves

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Wee’s four-year training in Old Master oil painting in France and Italy has prepared her to include elements from western art history in the surreal dreamscapes. This work is a self-portrait of the artist as Mercury, the messenger of the gods. She tried to capture a feeling of hesitation and discomfort being in a classical pose.

Jessica Wee

Hanji 001, Hanji 002, Hanji 003,  2021

30.5 × 35.6 cm

纸面油画｜Oil on mulberry paper

在Jessica的作品中，我们可以时常认出招财猫，幸运饼干，韩国民俗面具和朝鲜服饰等，一系例对于艺术家来说十分熟悉却又异域风情的物件。身处于疫情之中，即使这些符号代表着积极、好运，作品本身也表达出了这些与之疫情大环境充满着矛盾。

In Jessica's works, we can often recognize lucky cats, fortune cookies, Korean folk masks, Korean costumes, etc., a series of familiar but exotic objects for artists. In the midst of the epidemic, even though these symbols represent positivity and good luck, the work itself also expresses the contradiction between them and the epidemic environment.

Jessica Wee: 许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves

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材料上通过韩国传统桑纸与画布的胶合，进一步凸显了艺术家所体验到的文化融合。Jessica在这一系列的作品中，先使用了3D建模软件技术制作了这些奇幻而有趣的日常用品与传统民俗中的小怪兽，然后用画笔将这些图像他们从虚拟数字化的平滑屏幕转移至了凹凸不平的桑纸表面上。

This work is created with oil paint on Korean mulberry paper glued to the canvas. Jessica modeled the folkloric creatures and domestic objects in 3D software with the help of stock images, then translated them to the traditional paper’s irregular surface.

Jessica Wee

I told you so, 2022

24 x 24 inches

布面油画｜Oil on Canvas

这是艺术家BMS1系列里的第四幅作品，在动荡不安的新冠疫情期间，艺术家Jessica想通过这幅画记录一个让她仍旧记忆犹新的时刻，她的朋友Iris通过电话告知Jessica如果这周末离开布鲁克林回到蒙特利尔很快有可能因为边境管控面临滞留，紧张之际而Iris没有胡诌，作品中的女孩是Jessica忙于接收各种各样的负面新闻和电话。中间的面具是韩国民族民俗面具，常在韩国占卜店中，你会发现这个意象散发神奇的荧光，Jessica时常用这个图像代表当时的月亮。

Jessica Wee: 许多梦境/ Plusieurs Rêves

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This is the 4th painting of a series [BMS1]. Jessica wanted to paint this moment that she remembered so strongly when her friend Iris told her that borders might be closed if she went to Montreal for a weekend. And Iris was right. This picture is about Jessica being too busy on my phone to listen to all the signs around her. The woman in the top middle is a Korean folkloric mask, that she often used to represent the moon. It glows like neons in a psychic store.

Jessica Wee

May this year be filled with paintings No.3, 2022

16x14 inches

布面油画｜Oil on Canvas

奇妙的事是在Jessica中的许多作品中，她所经常描绘的“招财猫”，也被称为Maneki-neko，本身常作为在亚洲餐馆店面收银机上的装饰，给店家带来好运。拥有经营韩式餐馆母亲的Jessica将它的存在与西方童话爱丽丝梦游仙境的柴郡猫相结合，创造了另一种艺术家笼统的对自身中西文化文化认同的理解。

The curious thing is that in many of Jessica's works, the "lucky cat" she depicts, also known as a Maneki-neko, is itself used as a decoration on cash registers in Asian stores to bring good luck to the store owners. Jessica combined it with Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland to create another understanding of the artist's own cultural identity.

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LATITUDE画廊最近同期在展览与Asian Creative Collection合作的在线NFT群展，也即将举办Song Ting Nft个展、Yanyan Huang的个展。

Jessica Wee (b. 1988, New Jersey) 是一位在巴黎和蒙特利尔长大的韩裔艺术家。在获得 Concordia大学绘画和绘画学士学位并辅修传统动画（2011 年）后，她花了四年时间在意大利学习古典写实主义绘画技巧（2017 年）。2019 年至 2021 年间，她担任纽约当代艺术家 Angel Otero的首席助理画家。2021 年，她获得了 Canada Arts Council为期 2 年的探索和创作资助。她的作品在 White Columns 艺术家登记处、Rad Hourani 收藏中展出，并在蒙特利尔、多伦多、纽约和伦敦展出。她目前在蒙特利尔生活和工作。

Jessica Wee (b. 1988, New Jersey) is a Korean artist who grew up in Paris and Montreal. After receiving a BFA in painting and drawing from Concordia University with a minor in traditional animation (2011), she spent four years studying classical realism painting techniques in Italy (2017). Between 2019 and 2021 she acted as the head assistant painter for contemporary artist Angel Otero in New York. In 2021 she received an Explore and Create Grant for a 2-year project from the Canada Arts Council. Her work is presented within White Columns Artist Registry, the Rad Hourani Collection and has been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto and London. She currently lives and works in Montreal.

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