Images That Move With Your Gaze: The Reversal of Concave Spaces

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The images appear to move as if following the viewer's gaze. These are created by carving into the floor to form concave spaces, a technique known as "reverse sculpture," which is the opposite of traditional sculpture.

Lee Ju-sang reports on this exhibition.

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[Lee Yong-deok, Appearance Experience / Until July 25 / Art Park]

It is the gentle face of a neighborhood cobbler from the 1960s and 70s.

It looks like a three-dimensional sculpture that moves along with the viewer's gaze.

The girl carrying a baby on her back and the baby being carried seem to turn their heads to make eye contact.

A young man holding a camera to his eye also appears to move the lens as if he is about to take a picture of the viewer.

Although they appear to be convex, protruding forms, they are actually concave, hollowed-out spaces.

Reverse sculpture is a new artistic attempt that completely overturns conventional notions of sculpture.

[Lee Yong-deok / Artist: An image is formed and completed only when the viewer comes and looks at it. So, in fact, the viewer completes the work.]

The pastel tones capture a narrative atmosphere rather than reality as it is.

[Lee Yong-deok / Artist: If you depict actual colors in an actual space, it becomes fixed to that specific time and space. It feels like a common denominator, like an average of the time accumulated in that space.]

Choosing familiar figures from our surroundings as subjects is also a pursuit of universality and eternity.

[Lee Yong-deok / Artist: I want to capture the images of those ordinary people who keep disappearing into the past, like wild grass, and preserve them in my work as if they were taxidermy, in a time frame of an eternal present.]

The concave space and the convex image are a harmony of yin and yang, completed by the participation of the viewer.

It allows visitors to experience a device of time and space that brings moments of memory into the here and now.

(Video Editing: Ahn Yeo-jin, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)
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