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This work deal with a problem about “to see and to be seen”.
Our vision is not a sight to only see, but it is a reiterated one together with being seen. Despite of it, man mistakes himself for existence who just sees everything. At that moment when he notice himself seen by somebody else, man feels embarrassed in the exposure of his identity. Therefore environmental change takes place which he becomes degraded as an object, not a subject of gazing things.
That is to say, when we see into water from the outside of it unaware of being stared, we get to experience a situation that the sight in water re-stares ourselves: when such situations are repeated and finally we also cause to perceive ourselves gazed, we go though confusion that a subject and an object of seeing matters are changed each other. Furthermore, in the figure of our distorted face which is seen through a filter such as “undulation of water”, we can evoke the ordinary fact that our own image may be seen perverted by other factors rather than it exists objectively.

Focusing on the fact that an object is viewed differently depending on the viewer’s particular point of view. An image is not merely passively objective, but acts subjectively according to the viewer’s gaze and other factors.

SoYoun Jeong

A sustained record of the artist washing her own face is introduced in Narcissism. Viewers are confronted with a distorted image of a woman whose face appears and fades through the undulating wave of water, resulting in an amusingly surrealistic effect. On the surface of the mirror glass installation, the reflection of the viewer’s own image is superimposed upon the artist’s face, complicating the visual experience. Narcissism explores the issue of conscious/unconscious seeing and being.

Hyewon Yi (Amelie A. Wallace Gallery)