조기주 The Stains of Life (삶의 흔적)展
2008. 12. 1 – 12. 13
갤러리 애맥
The pain of an artist who are living a life in an eternal generation, affirmation as repetition, stability or incessant change and danger, that is, an artist’s seriousness involved in her experimentation with perception and meditation are presented through this exhibition. Life is a succession of disruption and agony. Comfort and reconciliation is only for the dead, not for the living.
A painterly quality is preserved in the process of transforming a square canvas into a circle. Three-dimensionality or depth is acquired in the process of painting and gluing. A circle and a hole are two different kinds and simultaneously one and the same. If a circle symbolizes any aesthetic desire to transcend life and a hole implies a desire to resemble life, the canvas featuring the two appears weird yet static. Her work is thus an outgrowth of any artistic perception through contemplation and reflection rather than any postmodern or feministic attempt to represent life as it is. A circle (an image appeared in the canvas) becomes a hole and eventually returns to a circle (the canvas itself) again. The two circles have different connotations in this process. While the former is a poor circle that is able to encapsulate nothing, the latter is a circle embracing all such as disruption, rumors, silence, noise, and shouting. This circle is white just as a black hole is white. What does this white womb give birth to? It tries to remain or depart from the world of existence, attempting to resemble new formation and production.
by Yang, Hyo Sil/ PhD. in Aesthetic
