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김진란 개인전 Painstaking

Bandage land - 붕대로 그린 풍경화

 

서울대학교 미술대학 조소과와 동 대학원 석사를 졸업하고, 베를린 예술대학교에서 유학을 마친 김진란 작가는 베를린과 서울을 중심으로 왕성한 활동을 이어가며 국내외 컬렉터들의 많은 관심을 받아왔다. 이번 전시를 통해 작가는 서로 다른 도시와 시간 속에서 축적된 경험들, 내면에 남겨진 기억과 감정들을 붕대라는 재료를 사용하여 한점 한점 스토리텔링처럼 보여주었다.

 

김진란 작가의 개인전 ‘Painstaking’ (뜻:세심하게 공들여: 고통(Pain)을 감내하는(Taking) 과정들이 담겨진 작품)은 서울 평창동 이엔 갤러리에서 새롭게 선보이는 전시로, 작가는 이번 전시를 위해 상처와 회복의 감각을 더욱 밀도 있게 탐구한 작품들을 선보인다. 김진란 작가의 작품은 치유를 완성된 결과가 아닌 지속되는 과정으로 제시하며, 붕대 위에 피어나는 풍경을 통해 상처를 덮는 것이 아니라 그 위에서 새로운 생명과 감정이 다시 태어날 수 있음을 말한다.

 

김진란 작가의 작업은 인간의 내면에 남겨진 상처와 회복의 과정을 사유하는 연작이다. 작가는 의료용 붕대라는 일상적 재료를 붙이고, 엮는 과정을 통해 기억과 감정이 축적된 시간을 시각적으로 표현하였다. 본래 상처를 감싸는 재료였던 붕대는 작가의 손을 거치며 치유된 기억이자 존재의 흔적을 담는 회화적 언어로 확장된다.

 

작가가 다루는 붕대의 섬유는 단순한 물질을 넘어 감정의 선상으로 연결된다. 가까이에서 마주한 연약한 실들은 상처와 불안을 드러내는 흔적으로 얽혀있지만, 일정한 거리에서 바라볼 때 그것은 겨울의 나뭇가지나 눈 덮인 들판처럼 고요한 풍경으로 변모한다. 이러한 시각적 전환은 고통과 치유, 불안과 평온, 현실과 기억이 맞닿는 지점을 형성하며 김진란 작가만의 작품세계를 만들어낸다.

 

작품 속 풍경은 특정한 장소를 재현하기보다 내면의 감각을 은유적으로 드러낸다. 이렇듯 작품에 사용된 차가운 흰 붕대는 작가의 손길을 통해 외로움 속에서도 살아있는 온기를 느끼게 하며, 삶의 무게 속에서도 인간이 다시 일어설 수 있음을 상징적으로 보여준다.

 

김진란 작가의 붕대 작품들은 상처를 감추기보다 드러내고 마주하는 행위에 의미를 둔다. “상처가 있기에 아름다움이 존재한다.” 조용한 선언처럼 작품은 상처가 남긴 흔적 위에 풍경을 얹는 과정을 통해 “Bandage land - 붕대로 그린 풍경 만들어 관람객들로 하여금 자신의 기억과 내면을 조용히 바라보게 한다.

 


 

Jinran Kim Solo Exhibition – Painstaking
Bandage Land – Landscapes Drawn with Bandages

 

Artist Jinran Kim graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Seoul National University and completed her MFA at the same institution before continuing her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. Based in Berlin and Seoul, she has actively exhibited her work and attracted significant attention from collectors both in Korea and internationally. In this exhibition, the artist presents accumulated experiences from different cities and times, along with memories and emotions that linger within her, using bandages as a material to create works that unfold like visual storytelling.

 

Jinran Kim’s solo exhibition Painstaking—meaning meticulous devotion and the process of enduring pain—introduces new works at E.N. Gallery in Pyeongchang-dong, Seoul. For this exhibition, the artist delves more deeply into the sensations of wounds and recovery. Her work presents healing not as a completed result but as an ongoing process, suggesting through landscapes emerging on bandages that wounds are not merely covered over; rather, new life and emotions can arise from within them.

 

Jinran Kim’s practice is a series that reflects on the wounds embedded within the human psyche and the process of recovery. By attaching and weaving everyday medical bandages, she visually expresses the passage of time in which memories and emotions accumulate. Originally a material meant to cover wounds, bandages are transformed by the artist’s hands into a painterly language that contains healed memories and traces of existence.

 

The fibrous texture of the bandages she uses extends beyond mere materiality to become a line of emotion. Up close, the delicate threads appear tangled like traces of wounds and anxiety; from a distance, however, they transform into serene landscapes resembling winter branches or snow-covered fields. This visual transition forms a point of contact between pain and healing, anxiety and tranquility, and reality and memory, creating the artist’s distinctive body of work.

 

Rather than depicting specific locations, the landscapes in her work metaphorically reveal inner sensations. The cold white bandages used in the pieces, shaped by the artist’s touch, convey a living warmth even within loneliness and symbolically express the human ability to rise again despite the weight of life.

 

Jinran Kim’s bandage works find meaning not in hiding wounds but in revealing and confronting them. Like a quiet declaration that “beauty exists because wounds exist,” her work creates Bandage Land—landscapes drawn with bandages by layering scenery over the traces left by wounds, inviting viewers to quietly reflect on their own memories and inner worlds.

Works
  • 김진란 Bandage Land, 2026 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
    김진란
    Bandage Land, 2026
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 1, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 1, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 2, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 2, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 3, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 3, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 4, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 4, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 5, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 5, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 6, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 6, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 7, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 7, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 8, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 8, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 9, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 9, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 10, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 10, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 11, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 11, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 12, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 12, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 13, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 13, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
     
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 14, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 14, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 15, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 15, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 16, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 16, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 17, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 17, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 18, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 18, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 18, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 18, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 20, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 20, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Bandage Land 21, 2026 Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Bandage Land 21, 2026
    Gauze, ash, paper, color, wood glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    30 x 40 cm
     
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 cm
    김진란
    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Ø40cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    Ø40cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Ø40cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    Ø40cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Ø40cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    Ø40cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Ø40cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    Ø40cm
  • 김진란 The Way, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Ø40cm
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    The Way, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    Ø40cm
  • 김진란 Winter Forest 1, 2018 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Winter Forest 1, 2018
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Secrets of the Forest, 2025 Gauze, ash, color, glass frame 30 x 40 x 5 cm
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    Secrets of the Forest, 2025
    Gauze, ash, color, glass frame
    30 x 40 x 5 cm
  • 김진란 Secrets of the Forest, 2025 Gauze, ash, color, glass frame 30 x 40 x 5 cm
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    Secrets of the Forest, 2025
    Gauze, ash, color, glass frame
    30 x 40 x 5 cm
  • 김진란 Secrets of the Forest, 2025 Gauze, ash, color, glass frame 30 x 40 x 5 cm
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    Secrets of the Forest, 2025
    Gauze, ash, color, glass frame
    30 x 40 x 5 cm
  • 김진란 DMZ in Winter Series 2, 2018 Gauze, ash, paper, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    DMZ in Winter Series 2, 2018
    Gauze, ash, paper, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Cascade 1, 2026 Gauze, Ash - Acrylic on Canvas 150 x 160 x 5 cm
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    Cascade 1, 2026
    Gauze, Ash - Acrylic on Canvas
    150 x 160 x 5 cm
  • 김진란 Cascade 2, 2026 Gauze, Ash - Acrylic on Canvas 150 x 160 x 5 cm
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    Cascade 2, 2026
    Gauze, Ash - Acrylic on Canvas
    150 x 160 x 5 cm
     
  • 김진란 Cascade 3, 2026 Gauze, Ash - Acrylic on Canvas 150 x 160 x 5 cm
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    Cascade 3, 2026
    Gauze, Ash - Acrylic on Canvas
    150 x 160 x 5 cm
     
  • 김진란 Falls, 2023 Gauze, ash, wood glass frame 50 × 70 cm each
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    Falls, 2023
    Gauze, ash, wood glass frame
    50 × 70 cm each
  • 김진란 Secret Wood, 2022 Gauze, ash, wood glass frame 50 x 70cm
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    Secret Wood, 2022
    Gauze, ash, wood glass frame
    50 x 70cm
  • 김진란 Heimat, 2024 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Heimat, 2024
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Return, 2020 Gauze, ash, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Return, 2020
    Gauze, ash, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Humanization, 2022 Gauze, ash, wood glass frame 120 x 140 cm
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    Humanization, 2022
    Gauze, ash, wood glass frame
    120 x 140 cm
  • 김진란 Winter landscape, 2022 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Winter landscape, 2022
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Spring Forest 1, 2023 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Spring Forest 1, 2023
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Wordsworth 2, 2022 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 60 x 80 cm
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    Wordsworth 2, 2022
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    60 x 80 cm
  • 김진란 Spring Forest 2, 2023 Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Spring Forest 2, 2023
    Gauze, ash, color, wood glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 After the Rain, 2018 Ash on canvas 100 x 200 cm
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    After the Rain, 2018
    Ash on canvas
    100 x 200 cm
  • 김진란 After the Rain, 2018 Ash on canvas 120 x 180cm
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    After the Rain, 2018
    Ash on canvas
    120 x 180cm
  • 김진란 Moonlight, 2025 Ash, color, wood frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Moonlight, 2025
    Ash, color, wood frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Moonlight, 2025 Ash, color, wood frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Moonlight, 2025
    Ash, color, wood frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Moonlight, 2025 Ash, color, wood frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Moonlight, 2025
    Ash, color, wood frame
    30 x 40 cm
     
  • 김진란 Moonlight, 2025 Gauze, ash, color, wood and glass frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Moonlight, 2025
    Gauze, ash, color, wood and glass frame
    30 x 40 cm
  • 김진란 Moonlight, 2024 Gauze, ash, color, wood frame 60 x 80 cm
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    Moonlight, 2024
    Gauze, ash, color, wood frame
    60 x 80 cm
  • 김진란 New Way, 2022 Gauze, ash, color, wood and glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    New Way, 2022
    Gauze, ash, color, wood and glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Tanglewood, 2020 Gauze, ash, wood and glass frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Tanglewood, 2020
    Gauze, ash, wood and glass frame
    50 x 70 cm
  • 김진란 Winter Forest, 2022 Gauze, ash, wood frame 50 x 70 cm
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    Winter Forest, 2022
    Gauze, ash, wood frame
    50 x 70 cm
     
  • 김진란 Wave, 2025 Gauze, ash, wood frame 30 x 40 cm
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    Wave, 2025
    Gauze, ash, wood frame
    30 x 40 cm