Artist Statement

The Island Confined

We feel stillness and silence in the modern city with complexity and splendor. This is not absence of sound or motion, but unbalanced movement from a point in distant, deep sea with closure and concealment.

As the flow of the seabed prevents us screaming and waving, an arbitrary closure and concealment let us build an island on our mind. Energy of the word, island has meanings of closure, absence and concealment. The unmoved images of island placed on a horizontal point of the sea resemble us, modern people in the city.

They are found on the TV monitor and through the TV sound awaking the city around dawn. Perhaps, scape of the island and the sea came out with the national anthem from TV is a portrait of ourselves.

Romanticized images of sunrise's ruddy light and splendid sea extremely are coming to our scape. The images become our images which stretch out the city out of the TV monitor trapped in pretence. We and light from the monitor awaking the city look at each other in a small room, and the island becomes image and scape of ours.

As an image of island, modern people are placed on the sea, that is city in stillness. They are floating on the sea with image of island being located on stillness and abyss of the sea.

The title The Island Confined in this exhibition is a phenomenal selection from the urban system maintaining island of ourselves by having an effect each other by force, and I try to reveal one side of our images by using the images.