BLANC

In my project BLANC, I focused on that I have developed in my previous work The Hometown of Stranger. My focus is on the process of decontextualisation through the overlapping of different everyday situations. BLANC is a painting project that attempts to irritate and transgress socially constructed boundaries in everyday life through the production of a new visual language.

Method:

Real situations serve as the basis for new spatial constellations that do not occur in everyday life. The superimposition of several unrelated scenes serves to create a new social space. This newly created space becomes an unbounded body that dissolves social expectations and tensions. The foreshadowing that dwells within each image recedes and unexpected, real interstices emerge.

Example:

A synthesis of three images:

– People listening to a guide in front of a palace in Seoul,

– People enjoying a summer holiday on a beach in North Korea,

– People farming in rural areas in North Korea.

In the overlapping of these three images, it is difficult to separate exactly which elements belong together and which do not. Due to the absence of a concrete context, people become abstract beings without reference. This creates a void (hence BLANC), a vacuum of meaning that can be filled with new meanings. The boundaries dissolve and are reset.

Style:

My paintings are not committed to photorealism, nor are they conceptual images in which symbols take centre stage. Although there are certain objects that appear in my paintings, the context of the pictorial elements is more important than their visual representation. In my paintings, the scene is a stage that reveals a mental image. Paintings pass the boundaries of reality through pictorial devices.