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The Past, The Present-Sky
Jeong, SoYoun captured skyscape of the museum with a CCD camera throughout the year and expressed it through video image rather than canvas. The artist shows ten different skyscapes of ten different times on ten flat monitors just like showing watercolor paintings. These skyscape videos where you see only slight movements seem to subvert the nature of video image to whom time and movement are essential and yet, at the same time, they stir up viewers’ sensibility. The work of real time video which relays the actual sight of sky outside of the museum to the exhibition site, tries to expand the exhibition space by imbuing breathing of nature to the exhibition site.
MyeongJi Bae(Young-un Museum of Contemporary Art)
Jeong, SoYoun makes stationary objects and places various new fields of visual and temporal experiences by her phenomenological approach to daily images. For us who have been accustomed to fast moving video images, her seemingly fixed and flat images seem very much like a painting. And yet when we sense delicate movements in those unchanging images, they become alive. These sensitive changes in her work lead us to be more sensitive and poetic. Jeong, SoYoun transforms objectivity and simultaneity of the video into painterly quality by expressing time two-dimensionally. The images that would seem fixed without scrutiny give us the very painterly sensibility. And Jeong, SoYoun expands daily spaces by bringing in different surrounding spaces into the small and regulated space of the gallery. Also by representing those spaces according to the changes of time, she makes us experience the stream of time where the present is transformed into the past.
Her image changing silently and secretly ushers us into the keen sensibility by drawing up concepts in contrast, such as time and space, the past and the present, speed and slowness, video and painting.
Kim, MiJin (Art Critic)
