Monumental Garden for the Environment, Insa Art Center > Art Work

<Monumental Garden> can be seen as a trend formed in response to the limitations of variable installation art and the demands of the times for the production of public sculptures. In particular, the limitations of space-time management of electronic devices and installation art would have made the sculptor turn to the monumental nature of environmental sculptures. In the early works of this series, as in the <Electronic Garden> series, various media and techniques are covered, and the themes also contain religious messages. Appearing at this time are huge stone pillars reminiscent of a temple and mushrooms of various shapes and sizes that have begun to appear as variations. In particular, the mushroom image that will appear throughout Shim's works becomes a principle that drives the artist's world of work with a special terrain. Now, her work secures a free distance from religious doctrines and norms, and through artistic transfer of desire, she has a more active view of faith that links religious messages to life.

For the artist, <Monumental Garden> is a garden to cultivate one's life. The Messiah who stays in that garden can be defined as the subject who will control the desires of humans living in the electronic age. However, as our longing for the Messiah increases, our temporal desires rise, and as our desires increase, our longing for the Messiah becomes relatively high. What is clear is that like the protagonists of contemporary art history, such as Louise Bourgeois, who was able to fully support his life through the production of divisive works, Shim's art functions as a garden of the Messiah, reconciling the two sharp contradictions. Therefore, her work can be called the Garden of Eden in the electronic age, and I recommend listening to the messages of human joy and suffering, the sublime and desire that bloom here.