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The Frozen Memory

 

Son Jeong-hwa

For Paul Klee, “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes the invisible visible.” And for French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, “To determine the existence is not the way.” Likewise, Jeon Gi-suk’s art of hexagonal fragmentary memories express her sensibility. Like a child looking at the world through a convex lens, Jeon’s work appear cold as ice, as transparent as a mirror, and as fragile as glass, leaving a resonance in the viewer’s mind. In this solo show The Frozen Memory, Jeon creates non-existent things by dressing the clothing of the past rather than extracting dim memories. When one’s vivid life memories are buried in the past, he is not alive. Like an unmoving and cold box, stationery memories are trapped in her past.

 
Inspired by photographs chronicling life turning into unfamiliar images, Jeon depicts modified images of memory. To do this, the artist removed and deconstructed memories in photographs. Although the destructed images are distant from the true nature of existence, they are reborn into new life forms. Water is a metaphor for the life force. While frozen water symbolizes death, a waterfall refers to ever-changing energy.

 

Scenes in her work show her hope that memories will come out, breaking through ice and becoming part of reality. These scenes hint at her attachment to vanished memories and her intention to observe moments with more affection through a vivid convex lens. Jeon’s wish to represent such moments and frozen memories derives from her thirst for life. The artist expresses frozen memories thawed and modified in hexagonal imagery. With this she tends to our life fragments lying in the cycle of life and death.