Installed across K1 and K3, the exhibition demonstrates Hong's broad-reaching analysis of visual logic through a diverse range of language systems: from wall paintings, sculptures, sounds, to light works.
In light of this the title of the exhibition, inspired by the theme song of Victor Fleming's film Wizard of Oz (1939) Over the Rainbow, not only evokes the multiple layers that make up the rainbow, but serves as prelude to the journey of chasing the 'happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow.'
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Accepting contradiction as the only way to overcome it, Hong embraces radical simplicity in her forms seeing the power of art to influence human thought and its power to free the human mind, organic geometry becomes the fundamental stance on art and even an ethic for the artist. The artist embraces this contradiction, using her familiarity of digital tools to explore new systems of order according to the exhibition environment. The work in Over the Layers II guides the viewers to the world beyond the rainbow formed by the artist's explosively multiplied layers.ĭescribing her work as 'organic geometry,' Hong readily acknowledges the contradiction inherent in the expression-placing 'organic,' an adjective referring to the changing conditions of movement, in front of 'geometry,' a fundamentally stable state of a stalled moment. In this follow up to the first Over the Layers, using vectors allowed her to explore scale without any fear of pixilation and further to use colour, freed from the limitations of the rectangular pixel. Adopting the vector grammar of Illustrator for the first time, in addition to the raster-based graphics of Photoshop, Hong once again pushes her work into new dimensions. The upcoming exhibition is conceived as a sequel to Over the Layers (Kukje Gallery, 2004), an exhibition in which Hong aimed to break from the two-dimensional plane and capture the additional layers of space and time. Since her solo exhibition Organic Geometry (1997) at Kukje Gallery, Hong has focused her attention on operating physical spaces based on networks of computer pixels. In this endless process of recollection, past works become the material upon which new layers are built, as the passage of time becomes Hong's most tangible fixation.
It is this technique of recollection that underlined her last exhibition, Reminiscence, offering a direct clue as to her approach to memory and how we relate to shared iconography.
For Hong, the closed systems of digital programs have allowed her to both frame her design methodology and freely proliferate her minimal forms, while developing a practice wherein she retraces and reflects on past works reusing elements as part of her artistic practice. Employing these programs allowed her to continuously expand her vocabulary of pixels as she appropriated visual forms and graphic rules that reflect the popular landscape.
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Hong has produced multimedia works using computer design software since 1997, starting with Microsoft Paint-a simple graphic program included with every Microsoft Windows-and eventually adopting Adobe Photoshop as her main tool. Kukje Gallery is pleased to present Over the Layers II, a solo exhibition of Hong Seung-Hye from 9 Fabruary to 19 March 2023.
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