A highlight to kickstart this season of festivities is Brooklyn-based Korean artist Stickymonger’s giant surreal strawberry creations. Renowned for her otherworldly and dreamlike murals, illustrations, and digital art, Stickymonger is recognised for her seemingly child-like portraits of young female characters that are often contrasted with darker, gloomier settings, which challenge perception and representation. Her works have been showcased in solo exhibitions in the US, Dubai, Japan, and Shanghai.
This is the first time Stickymonger has expanded her Strawberry concept from the two-dimensional and turned it into a three-dimensional, monumental art installation. The strawberry itself is a metaphor representing the aspect of our digital-led lives where we are blind to our own lack of uniqueness and originality, yet still convinced that we’re each individually unique and original. The female characters of Stickymonger’s artwork represent collective humanity: ever so aware that the “strawberry” is present and embracing it, and even co-existing with it. With these strawberry artworks, Stickymonger’s vision is to get people thinking whether their thoughts are really their own.