Youn Seok Oh carves and cut old letters on Korean paper to reanalyze and visualize meaning of them. Generally, letter is a medium to record thought and deliver it. Thus, it should be articulate visually, and meaning of it is also needed to be clear. The artist focuses on visual factors of letters rather than conveying meaning. Again, as cutting the carved letters, the artist deconstructs meanings so that the letter is transformed into formative language. On the process of cutting and carving, the artist wants people experience true artistic heal in a life of conflict and pain according to absence of communication. 

New works in the exhibition is 'Text Monster' series. Small pieces become a large-scale work or each work can be looked different one so that they have compositional tendency. Content consists of facts of text like living things. Commonly, unidentified organism is called 'monster,' and 'Text Monster' is also made with the same meaning. The text is constructed by carving and cutting so that it is extended to an uncanny image. 

People are always unstable since they are not be free from death and desire. The artist's uncanny image raises appearance of desire and pain in the inner mind and talks about how to dismantle them.  

*image (left)
courtesy of the artist and Gallery Artside