Price
₩800,000
Art protects art
8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
354
loans extended to fellow artists
95%
repayment rate — trust comes full circle
~KRW 140M
interest saved vs. predatory rates
Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.
Voices of fellow artists
“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”
— 50s, theater artist
“I've been putting off urgent dental treatment because I can't afford it. I should be seeing a doctor regularly, but enduring instead of going has become a habit.”
— 50s, actor
“I kept delaying ear treatment because I had no money, and the symptoms in both ears worsened.”
— 30s, musician
“I couldn't pay my hospitalized mother's bills, so we had to delay her discharge, and she had to give up tests and treatment she needed.”
— 50s, actor/broadcaster
“Because of money troubles I had nowhere to go — drifting between gosiwon rooms and rehearsal studios, and for a while sleeping rough.”
— 30s, musician
“Because of unpaid rent, my collective was forced to vacate our shared workspace and home. Neither bank loans nor artist loans could help.”
— 50s, actor
“Without money, life collapses — and creating art? Out of the question.”
— 50s, artist
“It's painful that solving this month's money problems has to come before the work itself. As an artist, I can only earn well when the work succeeds — yet I have to chase odd jobs every month instead. It feels like being trapped in a vicious cycle.”
— 40s, musician
“Debt collection calls disrupted my rehearsals and performances, and the psychological burden made every day painful and the next day frightening.”
— 40s, theater artist
“Many times the loan payments looming each month forced me to step away from performing and focus on part-time work.”
— 50s, actor
“Sleeping less than four hours a night, juggling part-time jobs and theater — but the more I performed, the more debt piled up. Eventually I decided to quit performing.”
— 30s, actor
“When things were hardest, I couldn't even attend close friends' weddings or funerals — and as a result, relationships were severed.”
— 50s, actor/broadcaster
“When I said I was a stage actor, the loan officer called me "unemployed."”
— 50s, actor
“The shame and severed friendships that came with borrowing from people I knew, the pressure of failing to pay it back, the helplessness.”
— 50s, cartoonist/visual artist
“Even with programs meant for low-income citizens, I feel shame when I can't produce enough documentation simply because I'm an artist.”
— 30s, film/broadcasting professional
One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.
Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.
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Park Jihye
- Category
- Digital Art
- Material
- Digital print
- Size
- 40×60cm · Size 12 · Medium How big is this? →
- Year
- 2025
- Price
- ₩800,000
- Availability
- For sale
About the Artist
Park Jihye is an artist who traverses painting and digital media to visualize the senses of 'passing' and 'transition.' After receiving her DNAP in Fine Arts from L'École Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen in France, she completed her M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Painting at the Graduate School of Hongik University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the AI Design Lab at the Graduate School of Techno Design, Kookmin University. Her solo exhibitions include 〈Passing〉 (2013, 2014), 〈Passage〉 (2014), and 〈Visual Dialogue〉 (Hongik University Museum of Modern Art, 2024). She has participated in the Asian Young Artist Exhibition at Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Herald Arcade 15, and 〈Reloaded〉 by the Korea Media Art Association.
Artist Statement
Through the repeated process of drawing, erasing, and layering subjects, I seek out forms that emerge by chance or by intent and reconstruct them in my own way. In this process, the physical gap between the divided surface and the canvas opens up a unique visual experience, and works on the premise that the meaning of the piece is never fixed but generated fluidly. The work does not bind itself to any single meaning; it aims at an open possibility in which new forms and meanings continually circulate and recompose. In my early work I expressed the absence of fixed meaning in the subject through the movements of people. At present I explore this concept through the image of "feet." In my early work I expressed the absence of fixed meaning through the movements of people; now I explore the same concept through the image of feet. The foot is the agentive element that enables human movement and change — symbolizing the act of walking and a state that is never stagnant — and through it the work emphasizes fluidity and change rather than restriction to any particular meaning.
A dream I had as a child has functioned as an important motif in my work. In the dream I gradually shrank, everything around me felt enormous, and my line of sight was fixed at the level of people's feet. This dream became the crucial impetus for taking the foot as a central element. The foot was chosen because it is where the observer's gaze settles, and because formal simplification can lend it symbolic weight. The work aims at a structure in which form and meaning embedded in the work are never fixed, but continually generate, reconfigure, and circulate. Rather than delivering a single message, the work seeks to enable new interpretations and sensory experiences through the interaction of various elements.
Key Career Highlights
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- For you —
- One of a digital limited edition
- For the artist —
- the pride of standing with a peer
- For a fellow artist —
- a new ₩3,000,000 path of low-interest support
354 artists have walked this path of recovery; 95% returned to open it for the next.