[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] in “Dominican artist’s solo present illustrates resilience,” Esther Chung (Korea JoongAng Day by day) opinions Iris Pérez Romero’s “The Artwork of Resilience,” which is on view by means of November 12 on the Trinity Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.
The faces of ladies staring again from portraits by Dominican painter Iris Pérez Romero are supposed to evoke a spirit of resilience, stated the artist, who opened her first solo exhibition in Seoul on Wednesday.
“The place of ladies in society, of their struggles towards gender violence, assault, racism, illness, migration and the imposition of stereotypes are all a part of the conditions that those that inhabit my work face, in addition to the therapeutic course of between the folks they reside with and are related to,” Pérez Romero informed an viewers on the opening ceremony of the exhibition on the Trinity Gallery in Seoul.
Operating by means of Nov. 12, the exhibition “The Artwork of Resilience,” was organized by the Dominican Embassy in Seoul and the gallery to rejoice 60 years of relations between the 2 nations.
Of 25 works exhibited, a sequence of work dubbed “Contained in the Island” would give viewers an acute take a look at the cultural and ethnic range within the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the Trinity Gallery. “Her oil and acrylic work are teeming with social messages that talk by means of the property of various pigments,” stated Trinity Park, director of the gallery. “The sequence addresses the ambiguous boundary between inhabitants of the island, be they natives or immigrants.”
Some 70 p.c of the nation’s inhabitants are of combined African and European descent.
Pérez Romero first visited Korea in 2015 for an inventive residency on the Mosan Museum in Boryeong, South Chungcheong. She is presently staying on Nami Island in one other creative residency, scheduled by means of Nov. 29.
“I discover the themes and points round girls in Korea to be fairly much like those we discover within the Dominican Republic,” she stated. “There’s a robust drive amongst girls within the Dominican Republic to be educated, however they don’t have the identical work alternatives as males. My work are my instruments to specific my ideas about this, and I’m glad to indicate them in Korea to construct sorority between girls of each nations.”
To commemorate 60 years of diplomatic ties between the Dominican Republic and Korea, the Dominican Embassy in Seoul has organized quite a lot of occasions, together with the primary Dominican Movie Competition in Korea in June, and the First Dominican Week in Korea in September, which included a culinary competition on the 4 Seasons Seoul joined by cooks from the nation together with María Marte and Laura Rizek and cocktail mixologist Joel Cabrera.
[A painting by Iris Pérez Romero part of her series, Inside the Island, in 2022.]
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The Artwork of Resilience
Iris Pérez Romero
Till November 12, 2022
The Trinity Gallery, 36, Jangmun-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
http://www.trinityseoul.com/the-art-of-resilience.html