NYAB Event - "YOU, ME AND US" Exhibition

"YOU, ME AND US" Exhibition

Elga Wimmer PCC

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Elga Wimmer PCC. presents Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation Members 1st Group Exhibition YOU, ME AND US: Young Kwon, Nam Kim, Meejeong Kim, Soo Kim, Seokhwan Cheon, Jeong Min Park, Sunhee Yoon, Soo Im Lee, Yoeuijoo kim, Hijo Nam, Inyoung Seoung, Hyunseok Kim, Soonnam Kim Singer and Sam Cho.

You, Me and Us is an exhibition that has to do with relating to others as individuals within a group dynamic. The 14 artists in this group exhibition raise questions about the nature of belonging leading us to think through their work, about our very existence.

Hijo Nam explores energy and movement that she conveys as empty space and fluid line to express her feelings of freedom. The cultivation of receptiveness and acceptance allows her to merge Eastern and Western philosophies in this new series.

Meejeong Kim is inspired by the history of art as subject in her work. She uses the device of appropriation that aligns her to Post- Modern cultural developments. The absorption historical styles such as those of Gauguin or Cezanne, and their repetition as familiar elements are validated because the end result reveals something new.

Soo Kim’s installation Pinata is reminiscent of childhood birthday games. Candies fall out of the piñata when it is hit, and as they tumble out, they turn into leaves and then into dollars. Everybody dreams at least once of winning a lottery, a big fortune arriving at once. Through 3D objects, video, and stage settings, viewers get to interact with Kim’s art on-stage and they sympathize with the situation.

Nam Kim’s line drawing on fabric explores the ocean waves as they ebb and flow in the water. Kim focuses on this subject as a way of expressing the texture of and characteristics of jelly fish in movements and captured by various colors and angles.

Seokhwan Cheon’s project investigates through a tangible interactive art form called Pondang the co-existence between virtual creatures in an artificial pond with humans. The project introduces new concepts and new paradigms for tangible interaction between virtual creatures and information gathered from various physical interfaces in water. The virtual creatures created within a computer are designed with an emphasis on genetic algorithms and evolutionary sounds.

Jeong Min Park believes in reincarnation. To Park, each line and dot she paints has a different meaning within the spiritual cycle. The larger theme of her recent ink on paper project is “Come Empty, Return Empty.” which is a Buddhist philosophy. However, although life starts out as nothing, memories will always be part of that life, good or bad.

Soo Im Lee expresses a common thread of people and persons on an abstract level with elements of human interaction and solitude thrown into the mix. They are a mixed batch of emotions with varying levels of intensity. Lee tries to undress reality down to its bones and portray others and herself as she sees them, without all the distractions that can get in the way.

Yoeuijoo Kim’s work is like a ‘collision’ in space, time, color and the rules of nature. Kim’s intent is to create images that instead of being harmonious collide with each other to result in new forms. Kim is living a nomadic life in a set of segments, frames, colors, realizing that she has little, if any, control over them. They ultimately drag Kim into their world until she disappears by becoming one with them.

Inyoung Seoung expresses the correlation between unconscious feelings and conscious ideas. She believes that consciousness continuously forces us to act in certain ways in order to be accepted by society. Seoung’s works are focused on depicting the struggles and problems that exist in all kinds of relationships. Through her drawing, Seoung presents the possibility of frank communication and mutual understanding free of consciousness as consciousness forces us to live only as social beings.

Soonnam Kim Singer’s concept of ‘non-objective painting’ and the idea of ‘non-objective composition’ have been the underlying concerns of her art for many years. Being a composer of visual symphony has been a challenging part of Kim’s goals in her struggle to create compositions that communicate with the spectator in harmony with color and line.

Hyunseok Kim presents día, monologue a video installation with an interactive performance in which spectators wear masks created out of photo prints. Kim’s face as seen in these prints depicts his varied moods. This performance is conceived to be screened in the gallery as video installation.

The director of the senseless land (Kim) declared to be both the creator (of himself) and the created (by himself), has been trying to insulate Kim from the other 'día,monologue' as an inevitable conversation his other persona is recorded in a dream. For a dream is not a meditation, but a projection, the conversation needs to be deciphered thus 'día,monologue' is a recurring reenactment to decipher the conversation.

Young Kwon wants to soothe peoples mind with his painting. Through his calm landscape he hopes that people can reminisce about their own country. A moonlit hill with a lone tree in the distance appears lonely much the same as a lone immigrant away from home. Consequently, rather than calming people’s minds this landscape is disquieting in that it expresses the immigrant’s longing (Han) for their homeland.

Sunhee Yoon’s mixed media work is ostensibly inspired by nature but rather, this two-section work has roots in art history and Surrealism. Yoon’s cut-out cloud in the upper section and eye on the lower, can be related to some of Magritte’s displacements as well as dream theory in that she thwarts expectations. Yoon comments on the process of meditation that brings her close to nature and to realize that she is part of everything that belongs to nature.

Sam Cho’s perception of the world is portrayed through facial images individually framed in a rectangle, a distinctive shape in photography. Cho intends to bring life to inanimate objects and create a new world within. Cho uses material culture’s products and icons to comment on consumerist waste while pointing to the loss of spirituality through materialism.