LIM Hyojin
b. 1991 -
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<My Animus and my father's complex>, 2020, oil painting, 130x97cm
<Human ibex>, 2023, oil painting, 130x97cm
<Become-animal>, 2023, oil painting, 72.7x60.6cm
<Human ibex>, 2023, oil painting, 130x97cm
<Become-animal>, 2023, oil painting, 72.7x60.6cm
I sometimes feel myself becoming an animal.
I can be a snake, horse, or bird, and I can be many or various animals.
Sometimes I wanted to be free from oppression, away from the framework created by humans, so my unconscious desire to be an animal or an animal became an opportunity to animalize myself. My body is transformed, and its changed appearance frees me from reality.
What does it mean to be an animal? It is not just a representation or imitation of an animal. It is in the same context as a chameleon changing the color of its body according to its surroundings. This transformation is an existential transformation in which I myself become a batter, diversifying the differences and pluralities of various things and reproducing anew.
As emphasized in ≪A Thousand Plateaus≫ co-authored by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “deterritorialization” of the self, such as separating the self from the body (body without organs) or leaving one’s home (nomadism), and It is to discover the ecstasy of existence that opens otherness. In the process of arrangement, ‘deterritorialization’, which makes a part of itself by embracing a certain term, and ‘deterritorialization’ which escapes from it, take place. In this sense, we can say that animal nature is always the shape of a batter. Therefore, we can only become animals by being not ourselves, another person of our own, or others that are foreign to us.
Finally, I am becoming an animal through the artistic process of work, and this behavior is by no means a sign of regression. I create myself as animals such as horses, snakes or birds. Philosopher Jill Deleuze has always mentioned “warning” as a feature of animals in “A to Z”, and artists, like animals, are also careful and alert anytime, anywhere.
Je me sens parfois comme un animal.
Je suis devenue serpent, cheval, oiseau. J’ai été aussi tant d’autres animaux. Une multiplicité. Des multiplicités.
Parfois, j’ai voulu m’éloigner du cadre créé par l’homme et m’échapper de la répression. Mon désir inconscient d’être animal s’est ainsi déployé.
Mon corps a changé et c’est ce qui m’a libérée de la réalité.
Qu’est-ce que devenir animal? Ce n’est pas une imitation des animaux. C’est comme si le caméléon avait changé la couleur de mon corps selon son environnement. C’est une transformation, une transformation existentielle, un devenir-autre. Devenir animal, soulignent Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari dans Mille Plateaux, c’est partir loin hors de soi, sortir de chez soi, se « déterritorialiser », éprouver les extases d’un être-là qui s’ouvre à l’altérité. C’est en ce sens que l’on peut dire que l’animalité est toujours une figure de l’altérité. On ne devient- animal qu’en devenant-autre, autre que soi, autre du soi, étranger à soi.
Enfin, je suis dans un devenir-animal prenant part à l’activité créatrice, et ce n’est pas un recul. Je m’invente, en cheval, en serpent, en oiseau. « Être aux aguets », c’est une caractéristique animale, poursuit le philosophe Gilles Deleuze, dans L’Abécédaire. L’artiste est aux aguets.