The final conclusion about seeing a landscape is this:
Only those who think, struggle, and gain experience each day while living can truly see life with depth. Seeing a landscape depends on one question. Do I stand as the subject and look outward? Or do I treat the visible object as the subject? In other words, do I reflect on the world through my inner gaze, or do I closely study what I see before me?
The visible world, the space around us, carries the effects of nature. It exists on its own, without human force. Because of this, we often give what feels natural the status of truth. What feels unnatural or unclear seems far from the truth.
Today, however, landscape is no longer pure nature. Nature shaped by human hands enters the city and our living spaces and becomes landscape. A world that has moved away from truth is easily distributed. For this reason, artists try to escape the fate of simply accepting nature. This appears as an attachment to flatness and as changes made to familiar forms.
Night scenes, negative scenes, scenes of the self without social systems, highly conceptual scenes. These are landscapes rebuilt through the artist’s thought. While actively using photographic processes and crossing into other genres, they strengthen the effect of painting. Meaning is not clearly stated within the object. Instead, the work remains open and unfixed. Making familiar daily images feel strange creates small tensions and contradictions within what we once called natural.
The artists in this exhibition draw out small differences that operate with repeated daily life. On the surface of these extracted moments, there is little vividness or detail. It may seem that there is no meaning and no intention. These are landscapes without essence. Passing scenes. Isolated scenes. Empty scenes. When essence is removed, spectacle disappears. What remains is a sharp, almost obsessive emptiness. These floating landscapes reflect the artist’s personal response to a world that has lost meaning, while also showing deep inquiry into that world.
When we realise that our lives are not as natural and passive as nature itself, something changes. Daily life becomes more standardized. Production and consumption speed up, and we are pulled along by their force. At such times, art moves closer into daily life. The traces worth remembering sink thinly into the canvas and become landscapes that will not fade.