Nature, becoming a scene
June 16 - July 7, 2010
Ko, Ji Young, 33x46cm, oil on canvas, 2009
 
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Nature, becoming a scene
This is the final destination of seeing a scene.
Only one who daily thinks about his life and experiences living in it could possess depth of looking into his life. Seeing a scene could be divided into two parts; it is either “I” become the subject or the object in the scene does. In fact, it is either thinking in one’s inner perspective or searching visible object around one.
Visible world, the space around, involves intimate, in other words, nature’s effect.
It exists itself in the world without any human force. Therefore, we give the role of “truth” to natural things. Unnatural and vague things are beside the truth.
Now a scene is not a nature any more. Manmade nature comes into the city or living space and become a scene. The world distant from the truth is faithless and artists wish to get away from their destiny to bear nature. It appears in obsession over even things or in transformation of similar objects.
Night scenes or scenes in negatives, self scenes in social system, extremely conceptual scenes…these scenes are reconstructed with the artist’s reasons and story on top. They make their best of photographical process and blurs border with the other genres while solidly holds onto painterly effects. Moreover, by not revealing meanings in the object, it is not concluded and gives it an opened ending. Making these ordinary daily images uncommon is contradiction and paradox to sensation of natural things.

The artists in this exhibition extract the small distinction from repetitive daily life. The surface of extracted life lacks vividness and concreteness. It looks like there is any meaning or purpose existed. It is a scene and a world without essence: a passing, distant, blank scene. A scene, as if floating, is the artist’s arbitrary reflection and deep searching of the world at the same time.
About the time when conclusion that our lives are not as passive as the nature is pulled after daily lives become standardized and production and consumption expedited, art would be soaked into our daily lives. Memorable traces become permanent scene on the lightly sunk canvas.