Jinjoon Lee

My work addresses the importance of calm and serene message, even though a scar remains in the land and collective memory in a tranquil landscape. Weaving scar of the space and time will be repeated continuously like tide waving, which leaves a visible trace on the floor repeatedly and is vanished continuously.

A research has explored how collective memory could be sculptured by art, through the concept of ‘The thickness of time’ such as ‘The eye of angel’ that represents ‘Omniscience’ perspective between past and now. These multiple time-based visions will be engaged in order to address the current challenges of oblivion about history, conflict in the world, and human alienation by technology

 Recently, the research topic builds on and deepens my previous work such as video collages combining a plenty of footages shot in place where catastrophic events happened in a history, to produce a multi-layered exploration of the ambiguities of collective memory and history, pubic and private space, ‘stratum of time’ and ‘erosion of time’ to reveal the hidden historical dead zone, which has involved multi-media installations that frequently cross over between several genres of Modern Art. Also, expanding the field of research to address questions of the Asian utopias influenced by Buddhism and Taoism in the context of the ideal relationship between nature and humans allows me to simultaneously engage more nature-friendly human perspectives on the history of urbanization and its current impasses.