2017 GCC Preview Exhibition 《Drifting Unconsciousness》
Exhibition Introduction
Gyeonggi Creation Center, located in Seongamdo, Ansan-si, is based on the locality where there were inevitable historical, social, and economic issues during the modernization of Korea, which occurred in a compressed form. Artists with different backgrounds move-in every year, focusing on the little stimulus that Seongamdo gives with their innate uniqueness. While staying at the GCC, they are not asked to have a specific direction in their works. However, they highlight the discussion points of the contemporary era through artistic practice with their unique perspective, attitude, and personal experiences. The preview exhibition of 2017 Gyeonggi Creation Center, <Drifting Unconsciousness>, will be the pre-game that estimates the broad artistic spectrum that artists will present, and 17 artists will create significant texts of arts by having their unique artistic identities and various regional characteristics embodied by Seongamdo to undergo a mutual relationship of gravitation.
Artists participating in this exhibition include those who focus on their characters, those who stay away from the world while showing their attitude and perspective, and those who focus on artistic performance and experimentation. The world they focus on and the way they show the world they choose are different points of existence for the artists, not identifiable but at the same time distinguishable from the others. The 2017 GCC Preview Exhibition <Drifting Unconsciousness> is sometimes reckless and dynamic, while at other times unstable and weak. However, we still expect that the preview will provide an excellent opportunity to experience the process of connecting with the world through their unique methods of existence.
Ⅰ. Artist Ego
Kim Namhyeon (b.1980)
Kim Namhyeon describes the uneasiness with the collective thinking prevalent in society showcasing himself as an artist who is helplessly tamed under such structure, in a display of the struggling ego. Combination of scattered body parts and their combination closely describes the structure of various relationship visible in society and the undeniable pressure encroaching on the body.
Kim Namhyeon describes the uneasiness with the collective thinking prevalent in society showcasing himself as an artist who is helplessly tamed under such structure, in a display of the struggling ego. Combination of scattered body parts and their combination closely describes the structure of various relationship visible in society and the undeniable pressure encroaching on the body.
Bin Woohyuk (b.1981)
The quiet forest surrounded by dense trees which Bin Woo-hyuk describes is a haven where people hide to seek peace and consolation from anxiety caused by a psychological situation complexly intertwined with reality. The calm emptiness detected in his artwork describes the inner side, increasingly estranged by the traumatic traces and losses that appear familiar but are abruptly uncovered.
The quiet forest surrounded by dense trees which Bin Woo-hyuk describes is a haven where people hide to seek peace and consolation from anxiety caused by a psychological situation complexly intertwined with reality. The calm emptiness detected in his artwork describes the inner side, increasingly estranged by the traumatic traces and losses that appear familiar but are abruptly uncovered.
jekei_Jeon Heekyoung (b.1981)
Works of Jeon Heekyoung are the acts of artists who try to eliminate the rift between the ideal world and the adverse reality. His arts represent disparate spaces where the abstract shapes with images disassembled and flows of colors are overlapped, and eliminate the difference. The artist’s artistic practice to reach the ideals serves as the motivation to overcome impossibility.
Works of Jeon Heekyoung are the acts of artists who try to eliminate the rift between the ideal world and the adverse reality. His arts represent disparate spaces where the abstract shapes with images disassembled and flows of colors are overlapped, and eliminate the difference. The artist’s artistic practice to reach the ideals serves as the motivation to overcome impossibility.
Yang yooyun (b.1985)
Yang yooyun focuses on the unstable subjects that cannot be trusted in the uncertain world due to the ultimate loneliness coming from the emotion that cannot be wholly shared with others. Yang uses unclear texture of the screen to describe the ambiguous and uncertain emotional state. Showing wariness toward the estrangement that feels stranger for familiar subjects, the artist transmits the subtle nuance absorbed with loneliness and fear.
Yang yooyun focuses on the unstable subjects that cannot be trusted in the uncertain world due to the ultimate loneliness coming from the emotion that cannot be wholly shared with others. Yang uses unclear texture of the screen to describe the ambiguous and uncertain emotional state. Showing wariness toward the estrangement that feels stranger for familiar subjects, the artist transmits the subtle nuance absorbed with loneliness and fear.
Chung Jene kuk (b.1955)
Chung Jene kuk fills stories by adding artists’ imagination to small subjects existing in the spaces contained in specific places such as museums and churches. When the artist presses the stop button on the camera, we start a virtual trip as the space gap we often ignore becomes the means to stimulate the romantic memory and sensor.
Chung Jene kuk fills stories by adding artists’ imagination to small subjects existing in the spaces contained in specific places such as museums and churches. When the artist presses the stop button on the camera, we start a virtual trip as the space gap we often ignore becomes the means to stimulate the romantic memory and sensor.
Hyunik Cho (b.1978)
Hyunik Cho uses painting to describe the paradox of dual values existing in the society that can be read by the symbols which specific objects encountered by individuals in daily lives. By using direct and blatant expressions with heavy feelings, he sorts out the unclear borders co-existing in both extremes that rapidly change into the most miserable being when trust is broken for subjects that supported the burden of life.
Hyunik Cho uses painting to describe the paradox of dual values existing in the society that can be read by the symbols which specific objects encountered by individuals in daily lives. By using direct and blatant expressions with heavy feelings, he sorts out the unclear borders co-existing in both extremes that rapidly change into the most miserable being when trust is broken for subjects that supported the burden of life.
Hoh Woojung (b.1987)
By using images obtained from newspapers, internet articles and issues, Hoh Woojung represents the view of the virtual world with ambiguous reality and imagination by using delicate and fine drawing. Repetitive and complicated images contain unstable emotions resulting from the inability to communicate due to limited information exposed to the public media as well as the double-sided aspect of an unclear and desperate society.
By using images obtained from newspapers, internet articles and issues, Hoh Woojung represents the view of the virtual world with ambiguous reality and imagination by using delicate and fine drawing. Repetitive and complicated images contain unstable emotions resulting from the inability to communicate due to limited information exposed to the public media as well as the double-sided aspect of an unclear and desperate society.
Ⅱ. Artist & World
Munhee Park (b.1982)
By connecting the meanings of society, culture, and history that objects have with life, it focuses on the new perspective formed in the analysis. Collection of objects grouped based on visual similarity or proximity are read as a circumstantial statement and enable a multi-layered interpretation. By depicting an exciting and colorful manner of owning the world, it discusses the exploration of life in connection with the objects and situations in the works that may look similar but are strangely paired up.
By connecting the meanings of society, culture, and history that objects have with life, it focuses on the new perspective formed in the analysis. Collection of objects grouped based on visual similarity or proximity are read as a circumstantial statement and enable a multi-layered interpretation. By depicting an exciting and colorful manner of owning the world, it discusses the exploration of life in connection with the objects and situations in the works that may look similar but are strangely paired up.
Ahn hyochan (b.1990)
Ahn hyochan, mainly using the form of mass-produced products for his works, focuses on the communication between art and the public. He satirically represents the paradox of the isolated modern art which denies conceptional and abstract artworks.
Ahn hyochan, mainly using the form of mass-produced products for his works, focuses on the communication between art and the public. He satirically represents the paradox of the isolated modern art which denies conceptional and abstract artworks.
Yoola Shin (b.1972) Yoola Shin
Yoola Shin shows the latent and uncomfortable contemporary topics by discording the images through sharp and sensuous intuition. The tension of objects mixed with different contexts composes ambiguous narratives and suggests a new perception for surrounding environments, awakening the existence of things that routinely define us, indifferent paradoxes, and unfairness.
Yoola Shin shows the latent and uncomfortable contemporary topics by discording the images through sharp and sensuous intuition. The tension of objects mixed with different contexts composes ambiguous narratives and suggests a new perception for surrounding environments, awakening the existence of things that routinely define us, indifferent paradoxes, and unfairness.
Yang Seungwon (b.1984)
Yang Seungwon focuses on the essence not existing in modern cities where things rapidly appear and disappear. Pictures describe the simple, uniform and anonymous cities that lost their unique locational identities as a result of the phenomenon of temporary existence caused by continuous industrialization and short-term urban planning.
Yang Seungwon focuses on the essence not existing in modern cities where things rapidly appear and disappear. Pictures describe the simple, uniform and anonymous cities that lost their unique locational identities as a result of the phenomenon of temporary existence caused by continuous industrialization and short-term urban planning.
Lee Sujin (b.1980)
Lee Sujin focuses on the political, temporal, and historical ideas contained in certain areas with on-going urbanization, describing the installation process that makes such areas multi-dimensional. As a psychological landscape that brings tension in the space and the urban environment, the combination of organically organized objects freely travels the space, composing specific situations that support and lift each other strongly.
Lee Sujin focuses on the political, temporal, and historical ideas contained in certain areas with on-going urbanization, describing the installation process that makes such areas multi-dimensional. As a psychological landscape that brings tension in the space and the urban environment, the combination of organically organized objects freely travels the space, composing specific situations that support and lift each other strongly.
Ha Tae-bum (b.1974)
Ha Tae-bum uses <White> series to eliminate the existing situation and contexts in the shocking, destructive and accusatory images that the public media produced in order to recreate the white scattered images as objective representations providing no actual feeling of the site. The white image approaches as a routine calmness that is felt when there is enough distance from danger and fear.
Ha Tae-bum uses <White> series to eliminate the existing situation and contexts in the shocking, destructive and accusatory images that the public media produced in order to recreate the white scattered images as objective representations providing no actual feeling of the site. The white image approaches as a routine calmness that is felt when there is enough distance from danger and fear.
IM Young-zoo (b.1982)
IM Young-joo uses installation methods and video to show the process of unraveling suspicion by do. The artist catches the ironic logic which became a belief more solid than the fact, despite the meaninglessness of distinguishing between reality and imagination amid the distortion of conceptions into a superstition over a long time.
IM Young-joo uses installation methods and video to show the process of unraveling suspicion by do. The artist catches the ironic logic which became a belief more solid than the fact, despite the meaninglessness of distinguishing between reality and imagination amid the distortion of conceptions into a superstition over a long time.
Ⅲ. Art Practice
Jeho Yun(b.1977)
Jeho Yun deals with audiovisual areas and experiments with the borderline between music and sounds by stimulating the senses through the re-combination of repetitive and non-repetitive, regular and irregular arrangement of sound ingredients that are both from daily life and designed by computers. Such works are added with visual performances consisting of abstract mapping of light, creating virtual spaces and providing an experience of cognitive unconsciousness.
Jeho Yun deals with audiovisual areas and experiments with the borderline between music and sounds by stimulating the senses through the re-combination of repetitive and non-repetitive, regular and irregular arrangement of sound ingredients that are both from daily life and designed by computers. Such works are added with visual performances consisting of abstract mapping of light, creating virtual spaces and providing an experience of cognitive unconsciousness.
Wooyeon Chun (b.1983)
Works of Wooyeon Chun breaks the border between the image, text, sound, light, etc. and specific spaces, showing a type of total art genre. The artist constantly experiments with the process determined by the interactive relationship that changes and responds to the movement of performers and audience members, resulting in multi-layered forms.
Works of Wooyeon Chun breaks the border between the image, text, sound, light, etc. and specific spaces, showing a type of total art genre. The artist constantly experiments with the process determined by the interactive relationship that changes and responds to the movement of performers and audience members, resulting in multi-layered forms.
Sungfeel Yun (b.1977)
Sungfeel Yun’s works start from asking ultimate questions for the existence of humans, and focus on the creation and change of space by experimenting with circulating energy. The artist hypothesizes that the mutually dependent change that humans cannot understand is the actual and essential shape of space. Ultimately, he perceives that the real existence is an constantly moving invisible power and believes that everything in the world is a temporary phenomenon caused by such physical power.
Sungfeel Yun’s works start from asking ultimate questions for the existence of humans, and focus on the creation and change of space by experimenting with circulating energy. The artist hypothesizes that the mutually dependent change that humans cannot understand is the actual and essential shape of space. Ultimately, he perceives that the real existence is an constantly moving invisible power and believes that everything in the world is a temporary phenomenon caused by such physical power.
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