​Jisan Ahn  안지산

Burn Your Heart
Ahn constantly explores the feelings of anxiety and desire that lurk within human beings and projects them into specific situations that he sets up. The artist, who has been focusing on natural landscapes such as clouds, rocky mountains and snowstorms for a while, brings urban people to the fore in this exhibition. These are people who live in a world without hope, holding on to their charred bodies and exhausted hearts under the shadow of various desires. They are in an ambiguous situation where they do not know whether they are enduring pain in order to live, falling and breaking again and again, or, on the contrary, living in order to gain pain. The black and dark background, the face covered by a mask and artificial wig, a broken guitar, a hand clutching a withered flower, and the shape of a snake with its body coiled slowly reveal the latent anxiety and fear of modern people. As those involved in the incident or those around them, the viewer will be able to relate to the emotions and situations of the figures in the work and have the opportunity to reflect on the reality of constantly trying and striving to find and hold on to something, but ending up trapped in the shackles of life.