[ ‘Gyeol’ series – Inner Terrain ]
A person's face is a part of the body that can dominate the memory of others due to its unique visual image.
In addition to its external features, a face which can be remembered must have a certain energy or aura that is projected from the inside.
My work draws on a motif from this context and pays attention to the inner (soul) hidden in a person's face. The ‘lines’ in the drawings that are reminiscent of contour lines, tree rings or wrinkles are the visual language that lead the theme of the work. The face and neck, or the lines covering the entire canvas are colored and reached through a labor-intensive process using hot melt, repetitive retouching on two-dimensional works, and by bending round bars by hand to create shapes for three-dimensional work. The point reached through the process is the inside of the other. Furthermore, the journey of the 'lines', which is the thinking tool of my work, is also the journey of the 'self' that searches for someone's mental terrain by metaphorically expressing changes in human psychology or emotions.
I hope that viewers will use their own imagination to think of various faces and people in the flow of systematic lines. I hope that ‘lines’, my tool of thought, will move the inner side of the viewer, and that, through slow breaths, they then will encounter the inner side of others. As such, I hope that my work will serve as a medium that connects me, the viewer in the exhibition hall, and the person the viewer may think of.
[ Note ]
“There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.”
From Damage, a novel by Josephine Hart
“We all have marks on our face.
This is the map that shows us where we’re going
and this is the map that shows us where we’ve been.”
From the movie Wonder
◉ Vivian Lee (Translation)