‘15kg weight loss’ What has Solbi been up to, and after 2 years, she‘s holding a solo exhibition... It’s going well!

Singer and painter Kwon Ji-an (Solbi) is holding a solo exhibition, ‘FLOWERS FROM HEAVEN’, for the first time in 2 years.

Kwon Ji-an will be holding her solo exhibition, ‘FLOWERS FROM HEAVEN’, from the 11th to May 11th at Space 776 in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. This is her first solo exhibition in 2 years since her solo exhibition, MOI À MÈME, in 2023, and around 30 new works will be unveiled.

This exhibition goes beyond a narrative of mourning for the father in heaven and explores the possibility of art expanding into love and memory through the senses. Kwon Ji-an wanted to express the emotions of love and longing that cannot be fully captured in words through artistic expressions that combine sight and hearing.

It started with the song ‘Flower from Heaven’, which Kwon Ji-an sang herself. This song, composed only of humming without words, contains emotions that cannot be explained in words, and the artist transformed this into pictorial elements to build a unique formative language where senses and memories intersect.

Kwon Ji-an plans to further enrich the spatial composition through collaboration with Shin Ye-jin, an installation artist and sculptor. The peaceful, vibrant landscape humming expressed by Kwon Ji-an and the object ‘Tree’ that visually embodies the various senses felt from nature by artist Shin Ye-jin fill the exhibition space by substituting emotions of love, regret, and gratitude into pictorial language.

Space 776 CEO Lee Jong-won said, “I hope that each viewer will hum their own ‘Humming’ and appreciate the heavenly images captured on canvas by artist Kwon Ji-an,” and explained, “This exhibition is not a simple greeting, but a reflection on relationships that continue beyond loss and a place for sensory conversation.”

Kwon Ji-an is scheduled to participate in an invitation-only special exhibition to be held in Porto, Portugal in May.

Meanwhile, Kwon Ji-an released a new song ‘Monday Disco’ in July of last year and also worked as a singer. At the time, she revealed that she lost 15 kg in 3 months and mentioned baby cucumbers as the secret to her diet. Kwon Ji-an said, “I carried around baby cucumbers and kept chewing them crunchily. I ate cucumbers with gochujang as a late-night snack and lost about 15 kg,” and confessed, “I really didn‘t meet many people. I walked a lot and went for walks.”

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com

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