Hyunji Lee
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW explore a particular outcome of the thoughts / feelings between the experiencing and remembering. In this sense, my own experience is used as a reference point for comparing experiencing self and remembering self.
How much importance has for you the aesthetic problem in general? in particular, are you attracted by objects which encapsulate cultural meanings or are you rather interested to the visual nature of the images you capture?
My work is about sharing the experience of transition, which is an experience that everyone is familiar with. I create an introspective journey into my past and present by visualizing to personal situations and memories. What I hope to present to viewers is a sense of my sight between a feeling of the loss for the familiar environment that I left behind and the excitement or anxiety of the new environment in nomadic situations. For me, culture could be the processing of sensory information that guide what information should be attended to and filtered out.
The way you to capture non-sharpness with an universal kind of language, suspending the viewers between imagination and reality marks out a considerable part of your production. How would you define the relationship between abstraction and representation in your practice? In particular, how does reality and a tendency towards abstraction find their balance in your work?
The memories are fragile, precious, fluid, and changing, and I have tried to show them as such. The elusiveness of memory is shown in the mixed layers, blurry and distorted parts of the work. A Viewer could guess the details of each story or understand some aspects of the pieces on an intuitive level. Through a mix of personal and instinctive images, I am trying to achieve a balance between what is seen and understood and what is left to interpretation of the viewer.
You allow an open reading, a great multiplicity of meanings: associative possibilities seems to play a crucial role in your pieces. How important is this degree of openness?
My work is an invitation to step inside memory and encompasses inner reflections on subjects that are personal for me and possibly for the viewer. I think the degree of openness allows viewer get to experience some of their own hidden images and memory.
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