Artsonje Center presents, as its third Lounge Project of 2014, Revolving Sights curated by Even the Neck. Paintings, installation, and sound arts by Seeun Kim, Yeji Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, and Myungwoo Jung have come together to offer a new perspective through which to view the lounge space.

About the Artists
When working with wood and heavy tools one is normally highly alert, since the job might be physically dangerous. For Myungwoo Jung, the sense that is agitated the most when using tools is the auditory. Jung concentrates on the conflicting sounds sprout by the tools and objects, which enables him to check whether his work is progressing well. He believes that the noise from the tools represents his own situation and manner of working. He thus keeps on working on several wood figures in order not to forget how he should develop his work. Hyun Woo Lee records and analyzes everyday experiences and emotions that arise within him. His work method involves the modulation of connections and dependencies between different elements that exist within these structures, thus transforming everyday observations into art. He uses collected and found materials to assemble altered systems that let viewers shift between connotations and denotations within his work. Seeun Kim walks along continuous roads, and stares at trees, grass and artificial installments that are laid out in the street. These street landscapes and the elements that constitute them please Seeun Kim. At the same time, she finds the unnaturalness and the simplified traits of the formal elements on the streets to be hugely foreign to her, motivating her to translate the instantaneous feelings derived from such scenes into the form of a painting. Yeji Kim depicts images that she may have seen in the past. However, her images are often fragmented rather than thoroughly assembled or complete. Just as a forensic artist creates composite drawings from vague memories, Yeji Kim collects shattered or disparate images and endeavors to compose them into an articulate scene.

*image (left)
Seeun Kim,
Two Masses, 2014,
Water mixed oil on canvas, 60.0 x 72.5 cm
courtesy of the artist