eye jailed eye: system illustrated

Make Room is delighted to present Joeun Kim Aatchim’s solo project eye jailed eye: system illustrated on Gallery Platform LA this week. 

eye jailed eye is a project born from Aatchim’s struggle with strabismus, an eye condition she was born with. In such condition, the eyes don't focus together on the same object and each eye sends a different picture to the brain. Though the condition caused many hardships in the artist’s life, it gave her an inventive perspective on her extraordinary drawing depth. In this body of works, Joeun Kim Aatchim recorded her personal sentiments of life from various angles in a dreamlike and poetic visual language. She explores sagacious negotiations of vision and reality in her practice while embracing everyday observations and family memories. Aatchim weaves emotionally charged imagery in her gracefully peer-through drawings and paintings drawings and sculptures.