Human Condition August 29 - September 27, 2008
Opening Reception Friday August 29th 7 PM- 10 PM
Eva Eun-Sil Han
The human condition has been the main source of motivation in my art. It encompasses all of the experience of being human and we have this condition as soon as we are born into this world. It’s inevitable for all.
In Buddhism, the human condition has always entailed countless sufferings and the first exemplified by the eight types is “suffering of birth”. The embryo, living as it is in a small, dark and dirty place, immediately lets out a scream upon birth. And when we are born, we have the first contact with this world and by growing up, we have to live and cope with this event – joy, sadness and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence.
The birth is the first context as human being and it’s the first process of the human condition. That’s the reason I choose [the birth] as subject for this show- born into this world and cope or react with the human condition.
Eva Eun-Sil Han, "Replacing", collage and ink on paper, 2008.
