Busan Biennale
The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.
The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.
This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.
2010 1. Earth baby 2. Shira - Spirit from the Wild 3. Inter-Traveller
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To date, her paintings have been characterized by depictions, to the point of perverseness, of a world where this world and the next are curiously intertwined. These paintings, although beautiful, give people a sense of dread and an impression of inaccessibility.
However, as Konoike absorbs herself in her amusing painted world, the various motifs in her paintings teach us that the cycle of life and death that transcends the individual, the very first memories from before there was civilization and the "somewhere" we were born and to which we will return are all adjacent to each other and not merely "the great beyond" separated from our own world.
Earth Baby produced in 2009 is, compared with her other installation works, exceptionally large-scale. The bizarre-looking "baby" that revolves in the center resembles the planet earth floating in outer space. At the same time, there is something abnormal about the baby, as if it was born from a swelling up of the earth. Nobody other than its mother – perhaps herself –is allowed to touch the newborn. On the other hand, the baby seems afraid of being separated from this land on which we live by the numerous ropes stretched around the earth that undulate like waves.