Sculptor Kim Seung-joo's solo exhibition 'Peterpan Complex' opens
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Lee ByungJae(2025-11-05 05:50:19)
Sculptor Kim Seung-joo's solo exhibition 'Peterpan Complex' will be held at the Seoul Branch of Jeonbuk Provincial Museum of Art in Jongno-gu from the 6th to the 16th.
Starting from 2017, Kim Seung-joo (1990~) has been telling stories about the fading innocence with the theme of 'The Little Prince' in his fifth solo exhibition. In this exhibition, he questions the boundaries faced by individuals in the face of the reality of life.
The exhibition title 'Peterpan Complex' refers to a psychological term that represents a syndrome that appears in adults who forever want to remain as children or adolescents like Peter Pan in fairy tales, meaning a psychological state or thoughts and behaviors of not wanting to become an adult forever. The artist believes that the various conditions (money, job, family, etc.) required to be recognized as a social adult today are unattainable for everyone due to the reality, leading individuals to give up on growing into social adults and instead live trapped in their own Neverland like Peter Pan in fairy tales.
This exhibition portrays the unstable appearance of today's youth who, slightly deviating from the previous works that evoke innocence, refuse to grow up like Peter Pan, harboring utopian fantasies from the past and facing the process of becoming social adults. However, the Peter Pan depicted by the artist does not represent a weak human who fears social pressures demanded by the life cycle, but signifies a gesture of resistance to continue the form of 'unfinished' dreams. The artist questions, "Is the world of those who have stopped growing up a rich utopia or a cruel dystopia?"
