July 2, 2011 Saturday 5:00 PM

Art Space Pool 1F

 

This program of 2011 pool public “the common salon” is an artist’ talk with Sandra Lee, the artist of the exhibition “Two waters”(Art Space Pool, June 24-July 24, 2011) and audiences. For this program, an independent curator and professional translator Kwon Jin will participate as interpreter and moderator.

 

Information on the exhibition

 

What are the components of human condition? This question has had various faces and forms through borders of history and non-history. If the condition has been visualized as landscape to people, the background of present landscape are constructed by local contexts, mortal public resource as capital, and consistent basis in our life as nature. In this ruined and substituted landscape, where the question is heading for, we, individuals are welcoming, expelled from, holding out development, or losing own site on the truth.

 

As a small sea-weathered stone in her installation, Sandra Lee’s works make ripples in two waters, from conventional perceptions into alternative spaces of memory. She has been researching gardens in her own ways that are distinct from scientific or other practical approaches. Process of “making a garden” in her works, strangeness of different locals and persons and familiarity of autonomous life forms are orchestrated together. Glass, stone, wooden material, plastic, colors are imagine intangible and temporal spaces between nature and culture into perception and recognition of audiences.    

 

Conflicts between development, civilization, artificiality and nature easily can be found comparison of Western and Eastern traditions. However, at this moment, it’s focused on a critic Lee Young-Wook’s essay that connect Sandra Lee’s works with spaces of East Asian cultural tradition and natural conditions; it embraces a discourse on primordial image that possibly realizes the cultural matrix. We hope to question; what is our assumption and accord around context of this landscape; what is invisible power structure behind the scene; what are signifies of this operating; what is the truth of each landscapes. Also, this program serves examples of each local autonomous garden that recollect ‘Defiant Gardens’ of Kenneth Helphand; stories on imagery and re-actions of individuals who encounter the nature; discussions about the subjectivities in landscape exists here.

 

Inquiry_Kim Sooyeon +82 (0)2 396 4805 soossu@altpool.org