What does collection of mements tell us? - Yoon ChaeWon (GalleryDOS)

Landscape of a windy day sometimes causes an optical illusion of losing shapes around us. Chung Yoo-jeong's story begins with concentration on the space of time that goes through a next phase of transformation, instead of remaining at a fixed shape. Before the landscape changing moment by moment, the author finds the phenomenon of coexistence between the past remnants and future preludes. In the process of compiling information about the phenomenon, she uses the human senses including sight to maximum, which results in the output of 'ambience.' The author focuses on other things than the hero. She rather looks on omissible elements, such as the usually neglected corner or shades, with a deeper interest. It is the way of the author's own to accept all beings, however trivial they might look, when she observes the landscape. The author explains it for the life force of landscape, which is also her answer to the question of why landscape. For Chung Yoo-jeong, a landscape is an independent subject rather than a secondary element like stage settings because, as the being open to mutual exchange, this subject can give inspiration and project emotions. In this busy reality, a landscape appears in a double face that both functions for a secretive dugout to halt and catch breath for a while and indicates the finiteness of life that nothing exists for ever. Before this forecast loss, the author comes not by fear but by paradoxical relief in her feelings. It is because this nature is the most solid proof of life. It may be that in a transitional space of time, coexistence of the beginning and the end brings conflicts and that flames that occur from the gap between those extremities are coined as the will toward life. To express the fragments of change, the author composes her wok focusing on the two elements of speed and humidity. In unfathomed time, layers of her landscape represent many images of space of time according to their density in the process of making a variable aggregate. From such a lively landscape, we should be able to reinterpret the definition of traveling together by which the landscape and man can communicate with each other. In Chung Yoo-jeong's landscape, there are numerous moments of creation and termination hidden. It is hoped that the author's messages about recollection of the past, possibility of the present and will toward the future could be experienced and delivered to the viewers through the window of arts.