A world as a terminal of self-satisfaction
Kang Sun Hak (Art Critic)
The repetition and difference caused by attaching four layers of small objects which are 4 millimeters size in wide and length on a full screen, are the way to create exercise and the gaze to read the world. Depending on the scale of the canvas, it is looked as a circle at a proper long distance, and at a properly close distance, the physical size and shape are seem to be the original form of square vividly. Visual illusions and phantasm by distance are one of the techniques commonly used in optical images, but in Jo Yeon Seung's artwork, that is not an image mistake or phantasm which are witnessed in optical art, but a double-sidedness of the world that one image produces. Attention is drawn to a precision of the way creating the image by power, as be superimposly circulated and shifted a square to a circle, a solid to a plane, a juxtaposition of colors to a singular impression.
The screens consisted of black, white, gray, or pink, red and blue at first sight are considered to a kind of monochrome painting which is selected as the characteristic of Korean painting, but they are not actually constructed by a single color, and shows characteristic of monochrome tone by a juxtaposition of colors and mixed use of various colors. The reason that refer to as a monochromatic tone painting, not monochrome painting, is because the perception of constant distance with monochrome painting is what makes her characteristic to be read without preconceived notions. It looks alike to resemble an outward form of monochrome masters, but it sustain a certain distance from them in form and also content what should be read are different. In the way that show colors, it is not painting but build, and has different point in that it is color placement using a unique module called square, and it is a color which reveals in the juxtaposition of color. However, it is also different from the tendency or understanding of pointillism painting, which has been using an optical color as the method.
There are resemblance to the work of Jung Sang Hwa, but if there is a edge's sharp expression that creates a sharp and sensuous response of metallic properties in his work, her work is attached with bumps of square dot with rough brush stroke on it. It gets much more different in the duality shown by the irregular construction effect of the juxtaposition of the color dots attached with bumps. In terms that three-dimensional cubes of the same size in length and width are being built on a single screen, it is self-replicating forms that are repetitive, and do not reveal difference. Repetition usually produces regular rhythms, which to her are on the contrary irregular and free. In the way of juxtaposition regularity can be seen, and in the results built up irregular rhythms are shown densely.
This irregularity creates rhythm and difference. Repetition of the same size creates a difference in height in the process of close attach and structure the visual difference between a cubic and a plane. The duality of this structure is related to the writer's unique gaze as the constituent which constitutes the world with the duality of reality and latent state. It is a distance issue and a reject of an ordinary painting viewing. It is a paradox to the general and conventional painting viewing that should be seen as a moderate distance. In addition, as a way of constructing a screen the high and low of bumps, a distance of looking, and difference of a gaze make possible conflicting characteristics of a plane and cubic within a single screen. The distance between the viewer and the screen is accompanied perception and understanding of latent state as the duality of monochrome and monochromatic tone, and reality possibility.
If it is a single color, it moves to a new terrain as the shading of bumps according to the angle of gaze, and the effect of shading which shows the physical characteristics that make self by itself are being maximized. That terrain is a texture, a physic characteristic, and thinking about the world by a tactile image. In particular, irregular repetition generates dual movements of reality and latent, not the rhythm of repetition. Rather than being faithful to the rhythm of repetition, it is a working to read a world where the impression of standstill by close attach and approach, impression of change coexist, and not increase but coexist, and a world rather filled with self-fulfilling than rhythm. When groping through the screen in a very close distance, it causes some pause and leads to a more tactile feeling than flow and rhythm, and leads to the effect of a different world that consisted of tangent surface of a plane and cubic. A fixed image of color fixed like a dot, along with the structure of a compatibility, coexistence or juxtaposition, to cause to move from monochrome to monochromatic tone, and from the impression of a rigid characteristic of a plane, which is the obstinate image where the dots are tightly concentrated to a movement. This image shines in its place as itself. Nor is the effect of colors by mixed effects or optical interaction. There is no optical illusion as well. Has only physical self-deepness. The height attached as an object is that. Is just self-satisfaction dot, colors. Is self-creating that requires no outside. This is a thought of characteristic of material itself, which does not considered about reenactment of the thought or experience.
It is hardly found the emotions that coloring creates in one's area or the difference of ups and downs and light and shade of a brush as well. It is, so to speak the coloring that the emotion is excluded, and it's impossible to reproduce a mood or object. It's just a color dot that leaves no room for the artist to intervene. It is a structure without main agent in which a artist is forced to be completely excluded from the color and form. Only faithful to each individual, there is no place to put in the emotion in that expression or contain the form or reenactment of the object. A world made by the juxtaposition of factors that has become as terminal of self-fulfilling, which cannot have any change of color and shape in 4mm space, and the composition of the world that is the whole and the identity of the ego is existing like that. They are only staying gathered, no event, no shape builds any form or ideological relationship. Her color and object are not placed for reenacting an experience, but are fulfilling a screen just by being there. Is the world she feels.
"For Deleuze, art is the thing that allows him to recognize the field of real existing potential force or a field for formation of forces that is said to a condition of sense fundamentally through the sensuous format. In other words, the real capacity of art is not in creation of shape or format, but stimulate the formation and then be sinked the shape down under, and lift the chaosmose which is a field of chaos that can't be distinguish the expression materials and power of art, and which is a field of a true formation at the same. That is, art is not a reenactment of the expression of a form or a reenactment of what has been experienced, but express the forces-which has never been able to perceive until now, in other words which has never been able to transcend the threshold of the sense- which cause to move a shape lively. (shape is a 'creation' of those forces). This very power makes us react, and change our ability to react at the same time." She proposes the generative force that materials make in art.
Jo Yeon Seung’s work become witnessed the starkly different world and language when approaching the view as a walking man's gaze watching the screen while keeping a proper distance and when viewing as closely as possible. The tactile language, which reveals as a texture which looks likely to be grabbed closely by hand, and the characteristic of a plane that is seen at a proper distance stir up the movement of image for making self to circulate deftly between reality and latent, and between the concrete and the abstract.
The characteristic that is circulated according to the distance as reality and latent form is an important point of caution that reads the work of Jo Yeon Seung. The colors created with small objects, achieving a three-dimensional effect, in a moderate distance, reveal not a three-dimensional object, only a plane by color dots, and that becomes a reality state. By the way, a three-dimensional tactile of an object seen very closely make a plane a latent form. In between these two exercises, builds a double-sided sense of exercise which make and read the image of her work, and the creation of change that exercise make. The exposure of potential power, perhaps that's the virtue of Jo Yeon Seung's work. Potential power, the world of latent state are the basis of reality, silence that is not revealed in the reality, but is always a attribute that pairs with reality. It is the world she has seen that the awakening of that attribute. The power to stir up a thought by a material without depending on any concept and meet a world through senses is the screen she shows. Making feel the creation of force, that's her work.