A person needs a private space. It means psychologically owned place. However, a development of science technology changed a personal space in two ways. Our every movements are observed and recorded in terms of advancement of internet, smart phone and CCTV. Our personal space is invaded. Then again, people are afraid of a face-to-face conversation with others as being familiar with chatting with anonymity via computer or smart phone. Again, people lose the personal space as well as refusing it by themselves. 

In this era, three artists create own private spaces in different narratives. Jae Hyuk Choi's space is filled with objets. These are goods in memory or used by the generation of the artist's parents. Called vintage objets, they dream return to the past. As collecting and painting old things or images of them, those can be transformed into the artist's own items or private objets. There are two things frequently showing in Eun Chae Lee's space, famous painting and yellow lighting. Like someone lives inside, there is always a masterpiece in a space with perfect wallpaper and lighting. Yellow lighting filling this empty space comes into the space throughly and reflects the artist's feeling desiring for warm consolidation. Hi Kyung's space is a complex city without a trace of others. There are a view of the artist, a tree with shade, silent stone wall and bricks existing only. This is a very private sublimation of the public space. Move of the private space following the way of my view gives detailed satisfaction. 

*image (left)
Hi Kyung
A Afternoon in the Sun, 2014,
Oil on canvas, 145.5x.224.2cm(2pieces)
courtesy of the artist and Keumsan Gallery