Sun Mi Ahn
"The Year Of The Woman" by announcing the second artist in residence of the year: South Korean, Paris based artist, AHN SUN Ml. The exhibition, which will open on May 13th 2015 and run through June 14th 2015, marks the US debut of Ahn Sun Mi's surrealistic photographic self portraits in the form of a solo exhibition.
With the goal of establishing a career as a fashion photographer, Busan, South Korea born Ahn Sun Mi moved to France in 2004 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. Arriving in France became a turning point in Sun Mi's artistic path as she experienced a strong sense of isolation being a stranger to a new country. Ahn Sun Mi started to use photography as a way to investigate her identity and the distance between her inner self and her appearance, as she was finding herself lost between. "I wanted to understand myself, [but] at the same time I didn't want to escape reality," says Ahn Sun Mi, "I felt like a child inside but who acted like a grown up."
Sun Mi started to see her work as a space for transition and exploration where time stood still. A space between childhood and adulthood, between dream and reality. Her work became an artistic laboratory where she questioned life and caught up with time. A constant communication with a child, afraid of leaving the haven of childhood, passing a gap to discover its femininity - her work can be described as surrealistic self portraits between childhood and sensuality.
Submitted by Catherine Ahnell Gallery
