tHehAZE (2022-ongoing)
tHehAZE_01, pigment print, 120X80cm, 2022
tHehAZE_02, pigment print, 120X80cm, 2022
tHehAZE_03, pigment print, 120X80cm, 2022
tHehAZE_04, pigment print, 120X80cm, 2023
tHehAZE_05, pigment print, 120X80cm, 2023
tHehAZE_06, pigment print, 120X80cm, 2023
<tHehAZE>는 작가가 개인적 경험을 통해 사회적 통념과 마주한 현실 사이의 괴리를 감각하면서부터 출발한다. 이 작업은 상식으로 대변되며 우리가 익숙하게 받아들이는 세상이 실은 얼마나 불완전한지 이야기하며, 그것이 어긋난 순간들을 장면화한다.
겉보기에 안정적으로 보이는 장면은 자세히 들여다보면 균열로 가득 차 있다. 작업의 무대가 되는 집은 익숙함과 안락함을 제공하는 장소이지만, 동시에 가장 은밀한 불안과 혼란이 숨겨진 이중적 공간이다. 균열은 익숙함 속에서 작동하며, 우리가 믿어온 질서를 흔든다. 또한 인물들은 작가와 비슷한 연령대의 청년들로, 특정한 정체성을 드러내지 않고 공간과 사물의 일부처럼 존재한다. 사진 속 이해할 수 없는 사건의 흔적들, 거꾸로 놓여진 사물들. 영원한 미완으로 남겨진 장면들은 익숙했던 질서를 해체하며, 관객이 스스로 길을 잃도록 유도한다.
장면은 특정한 내러티브나 메시지를 지시하지 않는다. 오히려 관객이 장면 속에서 이야기와 균열을 발견하고, 자신이 가진 해석이 계속해서 무너지고 생성되는 경험을 하도록 작동한다. 이 틈은 단순히 어긋남을 드러내는 것이 아니라, 우리가 규정된 틀에 의존하며 그것이 미끄러질 때 느끼는 불안정함을 은유한다.
<tHehAZE>는 관객이 계속 흔들리고 분열되는 장면 속에서 길을 잃고 자신만의 이야기를 새롭게 써내려가길 바란다. 이 작업은 단순히 불안의 정서를 표현하는 것 만이 아닌, 고정된 체계를 넘어 새로운 시선과 이야기를 상상하도록 초대하는 시도다.
<tHehAZE> starts when the artist senses the gap between social norms and reality through personal experience. This work is represented by common sense and tells how imperfect the world we are familiar with is, and scenes the moments when it is misaligned.
The seemingly stable scene is filled with cracks if you look closely. The house, which is the stage for work, is a place that provides familiarity and comfort, but at the same time, it is a dual space where the most secret anxiety and confusion are hidden. Cracks work in familiarity and shake the order we have believed in. Also, the characters are young people of a similar age to the artist, who exist as part of space and objects without revealing a specific identity. Traces of incomprehensible event in the picture, objects placed upside down. Scenes left eternal unfinished dismantle the familiar order and induce the audience to get lost on their own.
Scenes do not dictate specific narratives or messages. Rather, it works so that the audience discovers stories and cracks in the scene, and experiences that their interpretations continue to collapse and be created. This gap does not simply reveal deviations, but rather metaphors the instability we feel when we rely on a defined framework and slide.
<tHehAZE> hopes that the audience will get lost and write their own story in a scene that continues to shake and divide. This work is an attempt to invite people to imagine new eyes and stories beyond a fixed system, not just expressing the emotions of anxiety.
The seemingly stable scene is filled with cracks if you look closely. The house, which is the stage for work, is a place that provides familiarity and comfort, but at the same time, it is a dual space where the most secret anxiety and confusion are hidden. Cracks work in familiarity and shake the order we have believed in. Also, the characters are young people of a similar age to the artist, who exist as part of space and objects without revealing a specific identity. Traces of incomprehensible event in the picture, objects placed upside down. Scenes left eternal unfinished dismantle the familiar order and induce the audience to get lost on their own.
Scenes do not dictate specific narratives or messages. Rather, it works so that the audience discovers stories and cracks in the scene, and experiences that their interpretations continue to collapse and be created. This gap does not simply reveal deviations, but rather metaphors the instability we feel when we rely on a defined framework and slide.
<tHehAZE> hopes that the audience will get lost and write their own story in a scene that continues to shake and divide. This work is an attempt to invite people to imagine new eyes and stories beyond a fixed system, not just expressing the emotions of anxiety.
2023 제16회 ≪2023 ASYAAF≫, 홍익대학교 현대미술관, 서울 | 2023 16th ≪2023 ASYAAF≫, Hongik University Museum of Modern Art, Seoul