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Immaterial world captured in the space of layers - Seungtaik Jang |
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Somi Sim / Curator |
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The space limited by the two dimensional structure overpasses physical limites through the spaces created by the opaque layers. Besides, the visual journey taken off toward the sank holes cancels time of reality and flows backwards by looking back at the traces left from the past. As this visual process is absent in a flat structure, his work visualizes invisible time and space as a visual structure. Behind the restrained sensibility and reason, the suppressed fundamental space is receding backwards infinitely , however in that place, there is a structure that holds it. The abyss brought onto a surface by the layers, is finally revealed as the form of consciousness. It is a moment when sensibility passes over its source and reaches the surface. During this process, the darkness lightens itself and goes through the layers to be again integrated into the semi-transparent surface. The eye penetrating the layers goes against time and passes over space. Moving up and down in repetition, the continuous journey through the accumulated layers flows into the world of materiality and consciousness. The reached destination is each individual's deep side of despairs and the abyss of this world. This is an except from a text of ‘Captive space’, duo exhibition of Seungtaik Jang and Kyojun Lee (Gallery Skape, 2011) |
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Seungtaik Jang's artwork, reminding of a surface of lakes frozen by cold winter air, attracts eyes by its small holes punched on the screen. His recent works conceptualized as 'Poly-Drawing' are made by accumulating semi-transparent polyester films one by one, and then they are framed in aluminum panels. More precisely speaking, the immaterial characteristics as light and darkness
are caught in a frame by the semi-transparent materiality and the frame structure. As chasing darkness of a deep ocean emerged from the cracked ice block, there are sank holes. The eye is captured in the unknown space which is revealed on the dim screen. The eye chases after the holes without finding a way out and following the journey between each layer, you imagine the space in between.