Hyunji Lee
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW explore a particular outcome of the thoughts / feelings between the experiencing and remembering . In this sense , my own experience is used as a reference point for comparing experiencing self and remembering self .
How much importance has for you the aesthetic problem in general ? in particular , are you attracted by objects which encapsulate cultural meanings or are you rather interested to the visual nature of the images you capture ?
My work is about sharing the experience of transition , which is an experience that everyone is familiar with . I create an introspective journey into my past and present by visualizing to personal situations and memories . What I hope to present to viewers is a sense of my sight between a feeling of the loss for the familiar environment that I left behind and the excitement or anxiety of the new environment in nomadic situations . For me , culture could be the processing of sensory information that guide what information should be attended to and filtered out .
The way you to capture non-sharpness with an universal kind of language , suspending the viewers between imagination and reality marks out a considerable part of your production . How would you define the relationship between abstraction and representation in your practice ? In particular , how does reality and a tendency towards abstraction find their balance in your work ?
The memories are fragile , precious , fluid , and changing , and I have tried to show them as such . The elusiveness of memory is shown in the mixed layers , blurry and distorted parts of the work . A Viewer could guess the details of each story or understand some aspects of the pieces on an intuitive level . Through a mix of personal and instinctive images , I am trying to achieve a balance between what is seen and understood and what is left to interpretation of the viewer .
You allow an open reading , a great multiplicity of meanings : associative possibilities seems to play a crucial role in your pieces . How important is this degree of openness ?
My work is an invitation to step inside memory and encompasses inner reflections on subjects that are personal for me and possibly for the viewer . I think the degree of openness allows viewer get to experience some of their own hidden images and memory .
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