Exhibition Information

17 Fed 2009
2013 Oil on canvas 91x73cm

9 Jun 2011
2013 Oil on canvas 91x73cm

15 Now 2013
2017 Oil on canvas 115x100cm

21 Jan 2011
2013 Oil on canvas 190x175cm

			Big Year

Big Year as an exhibition title is derived from a word coined by Heraclitus originating from a cycle where the world is destroyed 
and regenerated by fire. A series of paintings shown in this exhibition are the images related to the universe out of archives 
where newspaper clippings the artist has collected for long converted into paintings.

Galactic clusters farthest from the Earth, spiral galaxies such as Andromeda, and solar eruptions emitting hot plasma from the surface are often reported 
as the outcome of sophisticated scientific observations. The solar explosion, in particular, is grasped as a periodic movement whose activity thrives through 
a series of the circulation phase. The way to name the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sombrero Galaxy to be related to the forms such as the eyes or 
a hat is analogous to how the peaks in the artist's mountain series paintings are named from the association of its images. Millions of light years away from the Earth,
these star clusters can only be seen as 'image' through specific space telescopes or sometimes even by infrared and X-rays. Yet, the images extracted from the process 
of visualization and their names from certain features are in the same trajectory of interest of the artist as seen in her mountain series. 

In these paintings that were triggered from completely different image sources from her previous works, the artist seeks to ask questions on the landscape we view, 
world and universe via humans' fundamental journey of finding forms through mediated images. The whole idea is to explore the creation 
and disappearance of circulating all things, the dynamics surrounding images, and the typicalities in which human senses have been re-mediated as aesthetic consequences.