Hyunji Lee
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making ?
Thank you so much for having me in LandEscpae , and I am very glad to participate . As a culturally displaced artist , I explore how my physical and psychological experiences of displacement affect and reshape memory in my personal nomadic situation . Studying in KU and PennState were a important part of my artistic development . I was trained both practical and theoretical art , which help me to define my artistic perception and express the ways of my investigation .
Your approach is very personal and your technique condenses a variety of viewpoints , that you combine together into a coherent balance . We would suggest to our readers to visit http :// hyunjilee . com / in order to get a synoptic view of your work : in the meanwhile , would you like to tell to our readers something about your process and set up ? In particular , would you tell our readers something about the evolution of your style ? In particular , are your works produced gesturally , instinctively ? Or do you methodically transpose geometric schemes ?
I record my experience in the form of photograph and use the documented images . The images are individual memory cells that create my work . For me , photograph is a testament to time past . I read photographs as information of my experience and select and edit the images repeatedly according to the flow of consciousness . Through this process , the final image could be interpreted in viewers ’ stories . In choosing personal photograph as exemplars , I explore the distance between my memory ( my work ) and the original object ( photograph ). I can entertain myself by filling in the holes of my imperfect memory with imagination and provide a personal , creative touch to reality .
For this special edition of LandEscape we have selected Untitled series interesting works that our readers have already started to admire in the introductory pages of this article . What has at once captured our attention of your captivating exploration of the distinction between experience and memory as two different kinds of human consciousness is the way you provided the visual results of your analysis with autonomous aesthetics : while walking our readers through the genesis of this body of works , would you shed light on your usual process and set up ? In particular , what are your usual sources of inspiration ?
After the big moves of my life , the foreign environment seems to violently pierce through my body and makes me feel vulnerable . I become acutely selfconscious as if I am observing myself . As I gradually accepted my dislocation , I was able to reconstruct myself , not by finding