MOON SUNHEE - Visual Artist

<Space, Dream and Light>

In the boundless inner dreamscape, vast as the universe, there exists the space of ALOK and of anomalous forms. The most beautiful and radiant dreams of my childhood, together with the small wonders gathered through a lifetime, are projected through ALOK as the figure of the child self. In this dream space, ALOK and other free beings drift like densely packed cells, and the emotion of today blends with the memory of the past to be born again as a luminous image. Holding the radiant light of the heart, ALOK spreads that light to everyone, and the light travels out across the whole world.

Beginning from the faint, fading pieces of memory, MOON SUNHEE’s work visually reconstructs the episodic memory that remains within us and the afterimages of emotion that accompany it. Memory — growing dimmer with the passage of time, at times distorted and rearranged — reappears as the faces and forms of people, holding within it longing, tenderness, and the facets of a feeling that refuses to be forgotten.

Her fragmented episodic memory is a process of weaving the emotional density accumulated within a person, together with the fragments of memory, into a sculptural language; through it the flow of feeling and the shards of memory gather into the inner narrative of a life.

MOON SUN HEE, 1987 — Visual Artist
Present) Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Ceramic Design, Hanyang Women’s University
meeth Co., Ltd. (Japan) BI Graphic Designer
GoldenPineTree Co., Ltd. (Japan) Chief Designer
Advisory Researcher, Promenade Design Institute
Former) Director, Promenade Art & Design
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Industrial Design, Hanyang Women’s University
Education) Ph.D. coursework completed, Visual Communication Design, Graduate School, Ewha Womans University
M.A. Advertising & Brand Design, Graduate School of Design, Ewha Womans University

Exhibitions
2020 「Um, Love scened」 Group Exhibition (Ewha Art Gallery, Seoul)
2019 「Love unscened」 Group Exhibition (Dongjak Art Gallery, Seoul)
2019 「Expanding Body BE」 Group Exhibition (Ewha Art Gallery, Seoul)
2019 「33rd We Focus on This Work」 Special Exhibition (Ewha Art Gallery, Seoul)
2019 「2nd Promenade Exhibition」 Invitational (Gallery IANG, Seoul)
2019 「New Surface」 Invitational (Gallery IANG, Seoul)
2018 「beyond art & design」 Group Exhibition (Seongnam Cultural Foundation Book Theme Park, Seongnam)
2017 「1st Promenade Exhibition: Meeting Promenade」 Group Exhibition (Gallery IANG, Seoul)

Publications
2025 <Next; Designing Survival> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information
2022 <Designers Facing Change> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information
2020 <Speaking of the Essence of Design> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information
2018 <Designing Empathy> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information
2017 <Designing Relationships> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information
2016 <The Two Faces of Design> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information
2015 <Design Meets People> co-authored with Promenade Design Institute, Korean Studies Information

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