Artist Beki Song

Beki Song's solo exhibition Love me anyway quietly contemplates the complex faces of love through sculpture, painting, and installation. It particularly introduces imagined beings—monsters the artist calls “wild babies”—born from a longing for unconditional love, from pure yet clumsy desire.

These monsters emerged from within the artist herself: the childlike yearning to be loved, the ache of loneliness, the wish for tenderness, all curled up in fear and shame. These emotions flowed outward, taking form as pure, childlike beings in search of love. They are cute yet unsettling, affectionate yet somehow strange. And just as they are, the artist declares, "Love me anyway."

In one corner of the exhibition space, small sculptures rest on a green moss-covered pedestal, as if they were living creatures perched on a hill. On the walls, pastel drawings and oil paintings are installed over watercolor backgrounds, along with oil portraits each depicting a different monster’s face. Blending sculpture, painting, and installation, the exhibition envelops the viewer like a miniature world. Inside it, one might feel as though stepping into someone’s secret room—or encountering long-forgotten emotions.

The materials used—clay, plaster, human hair, wood, wigs, fabric—come alive in the artist’s hands. Soft, warm, and tactile, they create a world that feels like a small fantasy. This exhibition offers a meeting with beings that are whimsical and endearing, yet strangely familiar. Because within them lies a “wildness” we all possess—emotions not yet tamed, the desire to be understood, the little lies we tell in our yearning to be loved.

Love me anyway paints a world where inner wildness and imagination quietly rise, much like Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. But unlike Max, the monsters in this show do not return to reality. They still live within the artist, growing and evolving even now. Born from the desire to be loved, but unsure how to express that desire, they’ve taken on strange forms. Yet they hide nothing, make no excuses, and simply say: “Love me, just like this.”

This exhibition reminds us that true love is not always warm or beautiful. And so we continue to learn how to love—sometimes failing, always trying—to understand one another.