Juna Kim`s work begins with her own identity as a Korean artist living in London. In Korea, relationships shaped who she was, but in the UK she often feel isolated and uncertain. This tension between belonging and estrangement is at the core of her practice. She draw on fragmented memories and encounters from daily life to visits to London’s parks and cemeteries where she observe both cultural differences and universal human emotions. These spaces reveal solitary figures, memorials, and traces of loss, which echo the inner feelings of disconnection and longing she explore in her work. Through sharp outlines, collage-like layering, and fragmented compositions, She transform personal and observed experiences into imagined worlds. Memories and emotions appear shattered, then recomposed, creating figures and spaces that are not literal but reimagined.

Her paintings investigate two intertwined questions: how visual language can give form to fragile states of human psychology such as grief, desire, isolation, longing and how fragmented structures can generate new ways of seeing. By transforming personal experience into shared reflection, her work seeks to connect individual memory with broader, universal emotions of human life and cultural identity.