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Explore the current series that organize recent paintings and Jeogori-centered works within Hyungjoo Kim's archive.

Jeogori

For Kim Hyungjoo, the jeogori is far more than a traditional Korean garment: it condenses the memory of Korean womanhood into a single form, carrying devotion, dignity, sacrifice, sorrow, and the open embrace of a mother. In her work, it becomes a living emblem of her own mother’s love and of the bond between mother and child.

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Whispers in Silence

Whispers in Silence emerged during the long vigil Kim Hyungjoo kept beside her son’s hospital bed. Without a studio or even proper drawing tools, she sustained her practice with whatever modest implements and nearby materials were within reach, turning that constrained space into a quiet language of endurance, prayer, and maternal love.

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