The Measure of Han

 

Han is an untranslatable Korean affect associated with historical unresolved grief, separated families, and loss of collective identity. Han is an accumulation of intergenerational trauma, which in the North American context has been sustained by suspended assimilation and dislocation/migration. Through relational methodology, the in/visible limits of its translatability are revealed/concealed. The Measure of Han, exhibited at Chester Art Centre, NS, brings inherited and copied objects, ritual in repetition, sound/video, and artist activations together in a temporal installation as the outcomes of ongoing research-creation.   

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Artist Bio

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mihyun maria kim is an interdisciplinary artist who explores intergenerational affects, 'hi/stories' and translatability. She has had solo exhibitions at Strathcona County Gallery, Red Head, and La Figurativa (ES) and participated in international group shows at Palazzo Ca'Zanardi (Italy) and Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (FR), amongst many others. Her site-specific works include Tea Cups for a Cuppa Tea at Gibson House and Remembering Four Sisters at Lakeview Village. maria was in residence at Villa Villekulla (FR) in 2024, La Napoule (FR) in 2022, at the RBC Emerging Artist Network at the Power Plant (CA) from 2022 to 2023, and at Can Serrat (ES) from 2017 to 2018. She holds a BFA in drawing and painting and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from OCADU.