Moosey presents “Nina & Mun” a duo exhibition by German artist, Nina Bachmann and South Korean artist, Chaeeun Mun.
Nina Bachmann
Bathed in warm light, everything appears effortless, pools shimmer, glasses clink, bodies glow. The golden hour promises perfect moments, a fleeting time made to feel like a way of life. Yet beneath the surface of sunlit ease lies a quiet tension: the fragility of desire, the excess of pleasure, and the weight of expectation.
In us there is a wellspring of hedonism, the little voice telling us that it won’t hurt to have just one more. Most of us know what it’s like to “let go” in the heat of a moment, and most of us know intimately the highs that come with it. But we also know that no high can last. The higher we go, the harder we fall – an unsettling truth. The subjects in Nina’s works are euphoric, intoxicated, and jubilant. They are in a state of arousal. They are even genderless.
They deal with the contradictions of desire and aversion, lust and emptiness, absurdity and abyss, dominance and submission. The yellow characters embody the urge for pleasure, to indulge, to feel superior; they are intoxicated by the dissolute life in a world full of privilege, wealth and prestige. But their anxious grimaces betray their insecurities and the lingering awareness that all this excess cannot last. And it is this duality that Nina aims to convey to her viewers, who, perhaps seeing themselves reflected on the canvas, are meant to receive a “tenuous pleasure” from her works.
Though a vehicle for social critique, her works are also a celebration, because it’s through decadence and excess that we can extol dolce vita, the sweet life. Using bright and garish colors, Nina gives her viewers a visual feast upon which to gorge as they reflect on their own place in the scenes they see before them.
Chaeeun Mun
Chaeeun Mun(문채은) is a South Korean artist who earned her Master's degree in oil painting from the China Academy of Art. Inspired by human relationships and emotions, she transforms heavy, negative feelings into light, expressive forms through the wind, giving shape to the release of negativity.
"In today's competitive world, true feelings are often silenced. My work explores this repression, using the wind as a metaphor for emotions that are ever-present yet felt differently within us. In my paintings, the wind carries away repressed emotions, revealing what often remains unspoken."
