How to paint and what to paintAt our first encounter in a studio, Jiwon Choi, the artist told me that How to paint and what to paint has always been at the heart of her work. The artist, who focuses more on these two rather than just object and why, came up with names of Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans, and Alex Katz when she was asked about one of the typical studio interview questions on her favorite artists. When I said you like figurative artists, she told me that it’s not always the case. Her answer made me wonder where her affection and respect toward these three “senior” artists come from. Then, our first conversation came to my mind: She cares How to paint what object. Probably, while the artist was looking at the paintings from these three artists, she has enthusiastically been following ‘objects’ that are recreated on canvas with each unique brushstroke of the artists and their gaze that was met with the objects. Choi started to paint ceramic dolls-like figures since last autumn nearly comes to an end. To be more specific, she added smooth and glossy characteristics that can be seen in surfaces of human-shaped china doll to her figurative paintings. The artist wants to depict emotions of people in ‘these days’ where everything is consumed easily and lightly and disposed quickly. She has added visual characteristics of beauty and fragility that a ceramic doll has into objects and created figures with insensitive expressions who are not frightened by explosion of firew
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