“A Spider Trapped in a Butterfly Trapped in a Flower” Poster image ©RAINBOWCUBE

RAINBOWCUBE presents a solo exhibition “A Spider Trapped in a Butterfly Trapped in a Flower” by Chaeri Kim, on view through August 4.

"A Spider Trapped in a Butterfly Trapped in a Flower" is part of RAINBOWCUBE‘s 2024 ‘My Very First Exhibition’ competition program. Launched in 2016 and now in its eighth year, ‘My Very First Exhibition’ is an exhibition support program for emerging artists that has supported the first solo exhibitions of 26 artists selected through an open call. This year, 162 artists applied for the competition, and Chaeri Kim and Seo Ji-won were selected.

Chaeri Kim, who is holding her first solo exhibition at RAINBOWCUBE, works in a variety of media, including two-dimensional sculpture, installation, drawing, and tapestry. Kim freely arranges a variety of subjective and abstract images using experiences and emotions from dreams and reality as her subject matter. The images in her work appear to be irregular, yet they are organically intertwined with the artist's own subjectivity.