"bride/ first house/seamstress", 2012 / Plywood, silver foil, tempera
merino（Yokohama / Japan）
[Recommended by Lee Jihee（Curatorial Team/ Koganecho Bazaar）]
merino paints with a technique called "egg tempera" that was used in Italy in the medieval and Renaissance periods. She has been drawing a virtual village for more than 10 years; drawing nut and seed buildings and various imagined stories about the people living in them. She has participated in the artist-in-residence program in Koganecho since January 2011.
Recommended by Lee Jihee (Curatorial Team/ Koganecho Bazaar）
Born in 1987 in Seoul, Korea, and currently based in Japan since 2007. She graduated from the department of Art Science at Tama Art University. While studying Korean Modern Art History of the Japanese colonial time, she started to work in Koganecho Area Management Center in 2012, using her knowledge of art history, and utilizing her communication abilities in both Korean and Japanese. Since 2015, she has been working as a curator of site-A Gallery beneath the Railway in Koganecho and is planning several exhibitions.
