Exhibition Information

			Gana Art Hannam is pleased to present 《Shaped Scape》, a solo exhibition by Young Rim Lee who explores the difference between what is seen and what is perceived while expanding the idea of painting with her experimentation on materiality. The exhibition features her new series of works consisting of irregular shaped ‘wood canvases’ that can be rotated any direction or juxtaposed with one another. Within this flexible formation of work, the canvases interact with each other organically and thus create new dynamics while remaining a subject to new interpretations. As the word ‘Scape’ from the exhibition title implies, the artist encourages the viewers to completely immerse themselves in the multidimensional scene created by the canvases and their surroundings. Instead of providing specific information on each work, Lee gives the spectator an important role of creating a meaning of her work and, in turn, completes her work with their interpretation. To her, the viewers’ presence and the way her work is sensed and perceived through their cognitive process is no less important than the act of creating a work in the first place. This evokes the fundamental characteristic of art that the act of ‘seeing’ can trigger a whole range of interpretations, depending on the environment, state of mind, or other internal/external factors. Her work also resembles the state of quantum mechanics where the reality can only be determined by the presence of the observer. Like the flexible formation of Lee’s work and its openness to interpretation, the exhibition wishes to offer a moment of harmony and freedom where all the opposite or seemingly conflicted ideas are embraced and coexist in relation to each other.