F*CK U! In The Most Loving Way

Kay Kang
Jungwhan (For the Girls)
Acrylic and charcoal embedded in mixture of sand on 70 panels
69 x 48 inches
2002-ongoing
Jungwhan consists of series of charcoal pieces embedded in a mixture of sand and pumice on a 6” x 6”
x 3” panel, on which I have written the names of each of my university classmates. Of these numerous
women in my class, approximately 17% possess what are typically considered male names. Jungwhan
are tribute to the women in my class of Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea who were given
male names at birth, in hope that their mothers would bear sons instead of daughters in the future.
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