urban humanity

METAMORPHOSIS

7, oct 2022 - 31, oct,2022

space hNH Gallery, seoul

earth mood

26, sep 2022 - 17, oct,2022

gallery earth, seoul, korea

2, july 2022 - 31,july, 2022

hacca studio, seoul, korea

2222 earth market

1, nov, 2021 - 11, jan, 2022

rYSE autograph collection hotel seoul gallery, korea

Stone is a material of hard work that is created and destroyed over a long period of time by extreme conditions of nature, and is also finely abraded and divided roughly. Therefore, none of them are the same, and it looks like a finished sculpture with its original properties and external factors. The stones piled up under the cliffs along the coast that I met look like barren human beings in this Anthropocene. We humans are born in a pure state and change into different forms through encounters and realizations with different beings. In this way, there is a human existence because there is no one thing in the human form, from skin color and appearance to inner personality and emotions. Differences lead to love and constant conflict.

I have captured the abstract landscape of the city in the life of the city.Another skyscraper is reflected in the window of a huge skyscraper, and the pattern of cars maintaining the prescribed distance between vehicles is uniform but cluttered.

Here, humans are seated in compartments as if mass-produced good products. If so, in what ways do humans in this city reveal their individuality?

I ask questions and coat the stone with the city's shell. If the abstract urban landscape becomes the outer shell of rough stones, will it appear as a single stone? Was it just a shell?

I am picking up and collecting natural stones from the shore.

The geological significance of stones created by natural winds and waves is very tangible and documentary. For example, stones collected from the west coast of Korea are mostly sharp due to their rough shape and little erosion by waves.

These collections and observations are not very different from capturing images with a camera or drawing them as they are through sketches. The emotion felt in the nature of the stone and the physical weight of the stone that must be endured while collecting gives us the realization of responsibility and perseverance in the work. A urban photo was printed on traditional Korean paper. I wanted the stones that I borrowed to question myself to be washed clean whenever I returned them to nature. So, chemical adhesion was excluded and the outer skin of the city was attached using Korean paper and organic glue made from animal tendons

- artist's note, yonggu do

돌은 자연의 극한 조건에 의해 오랜 시간 동안 생성되고 소멸되며, 곱게 마모되기도 하고 거칠게 쪼개어지는 인고의 물질이다.

그래서 어느 하나 같은 것이 없고 본래의 성질과 외부적 요인으로 완성된 조형물처럼 보인다.

내가 만난 해안가 절벽 아래 쌓여 있는 돌 들은 마치 이 인류세에 머무르는 척박한 인간의 모습 처럼 보인다.

우리 인간은 순수한 상태로 태어나 서로 다른 존재와의 만남과 깨달음을 통해 각자 다른 모습으로 변화한다.

이처럼 인간의 모습 또한 피부색, 외형부터 내면의 성격과 감정까지 어느 하나 같은 것이 없기에 인간의 존재가 있다.

다름으로서 사랑도 생기고 끊임없는 갈등도 생기는 것이다.

나는 도시의 삶 속에서 도시의 추상적 풍경을 담아왔다. 거대한 마천루의 창에 또 다른 마천루가 반사되고,

규정된 차간거리를 유지한 자동차들의 패턴은 획일적이지만 어수선 하기만 하다.

이곳에서 인간은 마치 대량 생산의 양품처럼 구획을 나누어 자리 하고 있다.

그렇다면, 이 도시 속에서의 인간은 어떠한 방식으로 각자의 주체성을 드러내고 있는 것인가?

나는 질문하며 돌에 도시의 껍데기를 입힌다.