{"id":2900,"date":"2022-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/dominican-artists-solo-show-illustrates-resilience\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:00:00","slug":"dominican-artists-solo-show-illustrates-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/dominican-artists-solo-show-illustrates-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican artist’s solo show illustrates resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dominican artist’s solo show illustrates resilience<\/h1>\n
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A Dominican artist Iris P\u00e9rez Romero painting that is part of her series, \u2033Our Sisters\u2033 exhibited at the Trinity Gallery in Seoul. [ESTHER CHUNG]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The faces of women staring back from portraits by Dominican painter Iris P\u00e9rez Romero are meant to evoke a spirit of resilience, said the artist, who opened her first solo exhibition in Seoul on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0
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\u201cThe position of women in society, in their struggles against gender violence, assault, racism, sickness, migration and the imposition of stereotypes are all part of the situations that those who inhabit my paintings face, as well as the healing process between the people they live with and are connected to,\u201d P\u00e9rez Romero told an audience at the opening ceremony of the exhibition at the Trinity Gallery in Seoul. \u00a0
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Running through Nov. 12, the exhibition \u201cThe Art of Resilience,\u201d was organized by the Dominican Embassy in Seoul and the gallery to celebrate 60 years of relations between the two countries. \u00a0
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\u201c\u2019The Art of Resilience\u2019 presents an aesthetic language that reinterprets the Dominican efforts at addressing inequality, dealing with immigration, and ensuring non-discrimination, through artistic genres such as painting, ceramics, sculpture and performance,\u201d said Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Korea. \u00a0
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A painting by Iris P\u00e9rez Romero part of her series, \u2033Inside the Island,\u2033 in 2022. [IRIS PEREZ ROMERO]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Of 25 works exhibited, a series of paintings dubbed \u201cInside the Island\u201d would gives viewers an acute look at the cultural and ethnic diversity in the Dominican Republic, according to the Trinity Gallery.
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\u201cHer oil and acrylic paintings are teeming with social messages that speak through the property of different pigments,\u201d said Trinity Park, director of the gallery. \u201cThe series addresses the ambiguous boundary between inhabitants of the island, be they natives or immigrants.\u201d
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Some 70 percent of the country\u2019s population are of mixed African and European descent.
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P\u00e9rez Romero first visited Korea in 2015 for an artistic residency at the Mosan Museum in Boryeong, South Chungcheong. \u00a0
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She is currently staying on Nami Island in another artistic residency, scheduled through Nov. 29.
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Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Korea, speaks at the opening ceremony of \u2033The Art of Resilience,\u2033 a solo exhibition by Dominican artist Iris P\u00e9rez Romero, second from left, at the Trinity Gallery in Seoul on Wednesday. Trinity Park, director of the gallery, stands far left. [ESTHER CHUNG]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI find the themes and issues around women in Korea to be quite similar to the ones we find in the Dominican Republic,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is a strong drive among women in the Dominican Republic to be educated, but they do not have the same work opportunities as men. My paintings are my tools to express my thoughts about this, and I am glad to show them in Korea to build sorority between women of both countries.\u201d
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To commemorate 60 years of diplomatic ties between the Dominican Republic and Korea, the Dominican Embassy in Seoul has organized a number of events, including the first Dominican Film Festival in Korea in June, and the First Dominican Week in Korea in September, which included a culinary festival at the Four Seasons Seoul joined by chefs from the country including Mar\u00eda Marte and Laura Rizek and cocktail mixologist Joel Cabrera. \u00a0
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A painting by Iris P\u00e9rez Romero part of her series, \u2033Inside the Island,\u2033 in 2022. [IRIS PEREZ ROMERO]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

BY ESTHER CHUNG [chung.juhee@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dominican artist’s solo show illustrates resilience A Dominican artist Iris P\u00e9rez Romero painting that is part of her series, \u2033Our Sisters\u2033 exhibited at the Trinity Gallery in Seoul. [ESTHER CHUNG] The faces of women staring back from portraits by Dominican painter Iris P\u00e9rez Romero are meant to evoke a spirit of resilience, said the artist, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjoongang.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}