Mirae kh RHEE

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There’s no place like Korea (2019)

Red shoes
There’s no place like Korea, 2019, rubber shoes, rhinestones, sequins, acrylic, wool felt, 6 x 12 x 22cm, Past Persephone, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin, Germany, 2019, photo: Marcella Wellmer
Light sculpture in gallery
There’s no place like Korea, 2019, rubber shoes, rhinestones, sequins, acrylic, wool felt, 6 x 12 x 22cm, Mourning Becomes Electra, Warehouse Gallery, Incheon Art Platform, South Korea, 2019, photo: Michael Hurt
Light sculpture
There’s no place like Korea, 2019, rubber shoes, rhinestones, sequins, acrylic, wool felt, 6 x 12 x 22cm, Mourning Becomes Electra, Warehouse Gallery, Incheon Art Platform, South Korea, 2019, photo: Michael Hurt
Red shoes on top mirror underneath Hanbok made of hemp
There’s no place like Korea, 2019, rubber shoes, rhinestones, sequins, acrylic, wool felt, 6 x 12 x 22cm, Intervention: Fresh Perspectives after 50 Years, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, 2021, photo: PAM and Peter Perigo
Red Shoes
There’s no place like Korea, 2019, rubber shoes, rhinestones, sequins, acrylic, wool felt, 6 x 12 x 22cm, Intervention: Fresh Perspectives after 50 Years, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, 2021, photo: PAM and Peter Perigo

The artist created the work There is no place like Korea, a pair of common Korean rubber shoes (고무신), transformed into magical slippers, as a present to all the female figures referenced in her work, fictional and real. Referencing the pair that the heroine Dorothy wore in the story The Wizard of Oz, which protected her from evil and eventually safely transported her back to her home and family with the chant, “There’s no place like home,” the artist wishes the same safe space to all women who have been oppressed, sexually abused, and/or discriminated against and poignantly the possibility to return home.

Exhibitions
Missing Merope, solo exhibition, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, 2023, curated by Rachel Jans
Intervention: Fresh Perspectives after 50 Years, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, 2021, curated by Rebecca Hall
Mourning Becomes Electra, Warehouse Gallery, Incheon Art Platform, Korea 2019
Past Persephone, Meanwhile. Elsewhere, a project from Galerie Irrgang, Berlin 2019, curated by Tobias Wachter
MuEon Daeon, Korea Verband, Berlin, 2018, curated by Nataly Han
Trostlose Trostfrauen, rk-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst im Ratskeller, Berlin 2018, curated by Kwang Lee