Negative Landscape, 2023
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Glass, objects
Dimensions variable
The individual works that constitute The Hydrology Project include Negative Landscape (2023), Silver Flow (2023) and The Hydrology Project (2023), a sculptural work with the same title as the exhibition. In these works transparent glass, thin silver wires and other objets are arranged within a gray space with their surfaces transformed as if to disguise themselves.
These individual works that share the weak and dim sensibilities of the physical properties maintain a state of visual tension with constituents standing low, hanging, or raised up about half with each supporting the other. The works seem to repeat construction and deconstruction, revealing the defense and protection mechanisms at the same time, transmitting the viewer’s sensibilities between tension and balance, allowing them to dig into their body, thus guiding their eyesight and body to move cautiously and steadily. For some, the works aim at amplifying to the utmost limit our experience of the moment we now face by intermingling the obsessive impulse of our sensibilities to see what is not seen with the anxiety that we might be led to an exceptional appearance of something we cannot now see.
Installation at Daecheongho Museum of Art, Cheongju