BiHop

“It is so natural to objectify others that we can improperly consume and exchange others too easily. This is the result of the other as the object which is the contrasting concept of the subject, from being born again as the subject of our own utterance.” 

BiHop parodies the paintings of renowned artists such as Caravaggio, Bacon, Gogh, Lautrec and Cezanne, for escaping from this dichotomous ideology of the subject-object. It shows the intention of de-subjection and de-objection by removing the Sunflowers from the Gogh’s painting and taking away the Apples from Cezanne’s. She also made the Venus disappear at Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”. Numerous masterpieces were revolutionary works out of the conventional dichotomy of subject-object from the contemporary perspective, but todays they are stereotyped and the artists become ideologues regardless of their intention. As time goes by, innovation becomes more customary, and grounded in ideologies. 

The history of art is clearly progressive. But progress in history always requires the pain and leap of patricide. So she eliminates the mythical and ideological themes from the establishment. If we remove the mythical themes, the non-subjects that alienated and suppressed like the background will come to rise across the canvas. But now the non-subjects can emerge as subjects again. In her works, background and objects as background are not filled with paints but reveal the color which is basic colored on canvas. The reason for this is to block to the possibility that the background and objects as background, that is, the non-subjects, will also be fixed as subject-object. She often paints with knives as well as brushes, in order to prevent planned/intentional fixation and to reveal the accidental nature of the world.

BiHop’s artworks and works of art will someday become solidified with myths and ideologies, but she thinks the attempts to break them down and the process of the efforts are important. Progress evolves endlessly, but if we abandon the capture of its runaway, the dichotomy between the subject and object will be further consolidated and unchanged customs will be centered on power and then such power will rule over objects with violence. So she also has parodied her own works from 2007 to 2012. These parody woks are her trying to prevent her artworks from being fixed in myths and ideologies and being concentrated power. 

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