Images – Plucking
As a child, I saw the body of a dead rabbit in the ditch of a rural village. It seemed like sleeping peacefully, but went rotten with time. As a result, I could not eventually recognize its form. As it was shockingly interesting, I often went there out of curiosity.
I always acted cautiously in the study of my father who was then over 80. I remember my father's innumerable books that turned quite yellow or even brown as the special objects bearing time. Those books were likely to reflect the look of my father who had remained in silence throughout his life.

I spend most of my childhood there. My work begins with such memories and recollections. A wide variety of cultures and values are mixed together, and accepted without criticism. In another respect, the conception of self identity and ambiguity is the key element to figure out and account for our times. What I am most interested in is the matter of identity in our times. My work begins with questioning what myself and our society are like and the quest to obtain its answer. Another concern is a new approach to objects and an attempt that has never been made before. The act of plucking is partly a solution to such question, as long as I know.

A book conveys messages of the times, whether true or fictitious. Some books are full of historical records and others decorate such stories superficially. A book is the place where such stories are recorded. Initially, I used the textbooks of Korean language, Korean history, and morals. But recently, I mainly exploit the books published in the 1960s and 1970s that bear the trace of time, or the Bible, musical scores, dictionaries, and old magazines.
The word 'destruction' moving beyond 'newness' is appropriate to contemporary painting. The act of not drawing or painting is not a controversial issue any longer. My work is just taking out something from the furnace of painting. That is made by manual labor. Such labor is the most critical element that is still in the center of my work and can never be denied. The act of plucking one by one is to interpret objects aggressively and to bring birth a new image by manual labor.

Plucking is a new approach to images and perhaps a chronicle of extremely personal activities. An aspect of our times and our own look are expressed by the floating images represented by the way of plucking and rejecting drawing or painting. ■ Lee Ji-hyun

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