OnJung Amy Kim’s artworks are about her process of displaying ironic states of childhood reminiscence and passed time. Her work presents her detection of contradictory desires, which have an overwhelming power, but at the same time function as the driving force of her life. Her artworks express acceptance and the embrace of a contradictory and often distorted self, away from its readjustment or alternation.

 

Her attempt is to produce vibrant and imaginative works that demonstrate a coherent approach, which shows layers consists of delicacy of labor, with a cocktail of childlike imagery. Intestinal abstractions, candy colours and confectionary is resulting in intoxicating pictures that shift over discomfort and pleasure. Subjects such as emotions and spirituality are translated into a visual language, staged for the viewers to emapthise with a bodily form, shifting between the line of intimacy and uncanniness.

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Her recent works use integration and crossover methods between painting and printmaking, with the construction of hand-crafted images. By using the objects/subjects that she was once obsessed with, OnJung continues to acknowledge their needlessness for her survival. This ironic condition is created in her work as a virtual space, where different dimensions come together.