About

My current practice focuses on the theme of trauma through psychological wounds received from my surroundings in the past. I used tracing paper as an embodiment of myself, crumpling and soaking it into water to signify depressed feelings. The aftermath of these actions on the paper expresses my main idea - although the shape and properties have changed, the original qualities and the essence of the paper are still present. Therefore, despite the theme being ‘trauma’ and ‘wound’, it has positive implications of growth and mental strength.

Bio

Kang Ah Young (b.1996, Seoul, Korea) is an emerging artist who graduated from Diploma in Fine Arts with distinction and is currently in her final year of BA(Hons) Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts. Even though her niche is in oil painting, she is beginning to expand her practice as a multimedia artist by further exploring other mediums such as sculptures and installations. Her practice revolves around her identity, growth, and recurring feelings of displacement as a non-local in Singapore. Through her deeply personal and engaging confrontations with identity crises and sense of displacement—themes that are prevalent in this day and age, she hopes her sentiments are able to provide a form of comfort, hope and the power to overcome identity crises.

Her artworks have been shown at exhibitions such as 'See Saw', a group exhibition at Straits Gallery in Singapore, ‘Project 3V - Visualise, Voice & Vision’, a Collaborative project between LASALLE College of the Arts and Sabanci University, at Fass Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey, and Earl Lu Gallery in SIngapore. She has also been awarded the Special Choice Award for the 41st Daegu International Grand Exhibition.

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