NYAB Event - SuYeon Oh "Gazing"

SuYeon Oh "Gazing"

Elga Wimmer PCC

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Su-Yeon Oh has fundamentally dealt with themes such as 'Time and Being' and 'The Traits of Time' that are found in our daily lives. The artist is attempting to reaffirm one's being by tracking the experience of time.

Along these lines, the pieces in the 'Gazing' series of this exhibition may seem derivative due to the contemplative view the artists takes on each of the objects; but for the artist, the gaze that endlessly distinguishes myself from the other becomes a rolling landscape of the forest beyond the horizon that moves afar as much as one moves closer within the relative relationship between each object. The gestures reaching out to the people observing the pieces are part of an effort to confirm one's being and the gaze of the artist expresses the variation of power intrinsic in the pieces. This is also reflective of the shifts we undergo in life as we are not a static being clinging on to the same way of thinking and values, but change our views at different points in our lives according to what we experience.

Each of the small pieces in this exhibition held under the themes 'Gazing - people' and 'Gazing - story' seem like simple figures or objects that stand in a uniform line. The fact that they are approached as a single mass rather than as individual beings is representative of those - or rather, us - living within a social framework that requires uniformity and regulations.