PINKDOM
by Knit Pigment
49x25x65 cm (pinkized flora)35x34x76 cm (pink bonsai)
anodized repurposed aluminum
PINK is a versatile color steeped in cultural and emotional significance. It embodies sweetness, love, and tenderness in numerous cultures, providing psychological comfort. However, given its multitude of shades—ranging from vibrant blueish pinks to softer, icily pale hues—PINK presents a paradox.
We explore interpreting our own variation of pink against our societal and environmental layers, redefining what pink means to us. Artists infuse their personal affection for pink, expressing how they perceive and combine materials to create unique shades of pink.
Our pink narrative, fueled by artists' love for the color and their distinctive creative approaches, shows its varied meanings to evoke emotions in both aesthetics and cultures. We encourage them to craft their unique pink, one that has yet to exist in the world, presenting their pink essays to enrich their journey in constructing their individual pink kingdom.
Knit Pigment’s first edition, PINKDOM, focuses on telling the stories of pink through artists: Sho Ota, Pyeori Jung, and Sangmin Oh. The final collage works are created by Pim Top.
Work Description:
Pinkdized Flora and Pink Bonsai extend a fundamental inquiry into contemporary humanity’s relationship with nature by juxtaposing its ephemeral, finite existence with the enduring, industrial permanence of metal. This fusion of organic and synthetic elements challenges our perception of nature’s impermanence, questioning the ways we attempt to defy time and decay.
Rooted in the artist’s personal observations of consumption patterns and daily life, the works critically examine humanity’s insatiable desire for beauty and its underlying self-interest within a capitalist framework. Just as eternal beauty is an illusion and all living things are destined to wither, we persist in preserving only the fleeting moments of aesthetic perfection. By artificially prolonging nature’s temporal boundaries through metal—an industrial material that resists time—these works subtly satirize the paradox of aesthetic obsession, revealing its duality with both irony and elegance.
Sho Ota: https://shootadesign.com/
Pyeori Jung: https://pyeori.space/
Sangmin Oh: https://osangmin.com/