You were, you are: Song Gee-Yoon, Yoon Sang Yoon

People who walk to the same bus stop every day do not question their steps. Bright posters on the street are promoting either outdated or upcoming events. The streets are crowded, and the trees planted along the road stand in neat rows. Travel ads and familiar images of vacation spots appear every year during travel season. In our repeated lives, the scenes we suddenly notice feel both familiar and strange. They linger in memory like an old dream. 

However, what Song Gee-Yoon sees in landscapes is not an illusion. She rearranges images from vacation ads and visual signs from the city to create her own unique scenes. She creates landscapes that seem unreal although they exist; like the universe. In her work, the sky at sunrise turns soft green, and constellations at dawn rest on diagrams she creates. An interesting part of her painting is its abstract way of forming images. Her method feels like a journey. The sense of place in her work does not come from a fixed moment, but from colours and shapes she has gathered over time from the edges of the city. She does not pass by common postcards or city ads lightly. Instead, she listens to the subtle language within those images and signs. Rather than simply repeating familiar pictures, she searches for a hidden ideal world within them. Her approach to landscape is pure and dreamlike, without a direct story. Because of this, her scenes move beyond a set time. For her, narrative is only a visual element.