Mihei Her

Biography

In Mi-Hei Her's artwork, most often printed on transparent film that covers the box. It easily shows and can read the fragments of the intimate diary of the past and the images of routine so we could see today of “it was”, as well as could see today of words that share with friends or neighborhood around directly or indirectly or today of neighborhood and street saw through the window. Between of palimpsest -repeatedly erase and rewrote- and kaleidoscopic and between layering and juxtaposition, we could see the artist’s identity get lost in front of our eyes. Her process of working the plexiglass has been based on the technology that was produced and used in Korea, where she lives. Her artwork process is made in eight steps; Take a photo, Select images amongst the photos taken and edit with Photoshop, Plexiglass cutting (Laser cutting and treat the edges with an angle of 45°), Printing the photos on transparent adhesive paper, Use a transparent glossy coating on the printed photo, Attach the printed photo to the plexiglass, Make a box with methylene chloride and Polish the box edges and attach hooks. Her artwork process which is the master complete the luxury item with every little stitch by hand. And It is very detail and delicate with my mind and fingertip even though it is not the same item and churn item out with machine. It is very hard process that I have to focus on the work in my whole body, mind and spirit with each process. It can count at the moment for each of these series for each of the works, 24, 49, 56, 48 or 82... Nevertheless these series could remain open. Obsessively, decisively, delicately and very lucidly ‘Her’ and Mi-Hei HER, seeking writer, continued to write and be written by depositing her crystal Pandora boxes on the floor or by affixing to the walls and sometimes on the windows.