According to Wittgenstein, ‘the other’ is a different rule of life. An encounter with ‘the other’ arouses unfamiliar feeling. ‘The other’ is uncomfortable because of the difference but necessary at the same time. Because ‘the other’ can see what I can’t and ‘the other’ can perceive what I can’t. We can have another sight to perceive the world through the meeting with ‘the other’ who see the world in different way.
There are three artists leading us to unfamiliar scene and unfamiliar feeling. This unfamiliarity is similar to meeting ‘the other’ because the artworks open another sight to see the world. Different space and different time coexist in their works. The mix of time and space gives us unfamiliar feeling and leads us unusual world. The artists meet ‘the other’ in different ways and free from the existing frame. It is a trial of making new world and a process of drawing out viewer’s imagination.
The landscape of Won, Seoungwon is based on her childhood at the age of seven. The artist reconstructed her memory of seven years old from the pictures taken by her. We could know her works embody not real place but her story of childhood through the title like 『My age of 7 – Bed-wetter’s laundry』, 『My age of 7 – Going out casually』. Therefore the new image made by her gives us the sentiment of familiar and unfamiliar because familiar place becomes unfamiliar by meeting her memories as others. However the place unfamiliar at first sight changes into familiar one because the image of the work talks to us as a story. This story is her childhood as well as our childhood. Namely her work is a process of recalling our memory through embodying memory in image.
Lee, Kyoungha’s landscape coexists with extremely different two worlds. One is common stuff and people. There are painting workers, sleeping person, building, road, and so on. That was painted realistically wearing their real color. However, the background is the space we never saw before and does not exist. That drawn in charcoal is very black and dark so we don’t know its beginning and the end. The familiar object put on the infinite space looks more limited. Bringing it to unfamiliar background, the artist makes it outstandingly. It obtains a new meaning in a new disposition. In other words, her work is a process of outstanding and mixing each other as putting real object and unreal space together.
Lee, Nari’s landscape is a city. Her works start to take pictures of a place. The place chosen by her has a historical story. The present of the place is represented by the pictures and its past is painted by brush. She abstracts the future of the place from its present and past. Her city is completed through meeting the future created by her. Past, present, and future of a place coexist in her canvas. As putting together the different times that can’t coexist together, this cityscape becomes the place we don’t know. Therefore her work is not only restoring a real city but creating a new city.
VITGALLERY Curator Choo, Sunjung
