Min Jung Kim “Spots, Lights, Shadows and Winds beneath Them”
Chelsea West Gallery
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The appearance of the objects that are shown to us is perceived as an object by the brain as it goes through optic nerves after the light that shine on the object is projected to retina. Therefore, it cannot help the objects that we see distorted, by the light, our eyes and nerves. Then, despite the great question what the true visual nature of object, we cannot avoid assuming the simple beginning that the objects that occupies certain spaces and are seen in our eyes have to be composed of at least one dimensional dot.
Minjung Kim’s drawings started from this assumption and attempt fundamental approach to the true nature of objects through the dots on acrylic board. Although she recomposes objects that can be visually distorted on acrylic board, she intentionally distorts it again so that it stimulates our imagination on the question “Are objects the object that are shown in our eyes? On the other hand, she also recreates a type of space, not the empty space with beauty of empty which is the traditional characteristic of Korean paintings. The dots that are the key of the objects composing her drawings become a shape as they are connected organically, and they are transparent and reflected on acrylic board that is weak in light, which distorts our view again. The shapes above are positioned as dots on a transparent acrylic board with lighting from above and provide us with the true nature of objects directly and at the same time the shadows on white campus are reflected on white campus again. The shadows come to us visually with dots on the acrylic board through the acrylic board.
Like other Korean paintings, the matters of Minjeong Kim’s pictures are mainly flowers and landscape. In her picture, there are three dimensional spaces which are between the acrylic board and campus and as the acrylic board and campus give and receive light and shadow one another, it gives us something more than the flower and landscape. We want to call it as wind. I hope that you feel the wind beneath the flower and landscape, not them, through the dots that show drew and the shadow that is appeared as the light is projected to dots.
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from May 03, 2011 to May 18, 2011