Ligyung , Coreana Museum of Art, Space*C
Birth
1969, Jeonju
Genre
Installation, Photography, Media
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Ligyung-more Light_curated by Myung-ji Bae
‘Ligyung_More Light’ presented at Coreana Art Museum is organized to introduce the work of media artist Ligyung. Since 2000, Ligyung has focused her installation work on the philosophy concerning individual human beings and society by presenting a space of floating light. This exhibition features about thirty of her installations, including work from her earlier years as well as her most recent works shown at two exhibitions in 2012: ‘More Light’ and ‘I Am Telling a Lie.’ This exhibition, ‘Ligyung_More Light,’ focuses more directly on the tactile physical experience that can be felt in the limitless space of light rather than visual spectacle, suggesting connotations of light within installation works that envelop the entire space that can be seen and felt.
The concept of light has been a significant theme in Ligyung’s work, pervading her artistic voice and determination. Her work aims to reveal the visual limitations of the human eye, which believes all it sees to be real. Venturing into a space of light that seemingly has no beginning or end, viewers experience a sense of disconnected perception and cannot fix their eyes on anything in the limitless space. In do doing, viewers come to recognize the limitations of their eyes which cannot distinguish appearance from being, phenomena from existence, truth from fabrication, as well as the imperfections of the phenomenal world. Ligyung's works can be seen as representing the divisive situations of people today who cannot resolve the questions of where to go in our highly structured social system.
In this exhibition, Ligyung takes greater interest in phenomena that can be seen and felt here and now by the physical senses and invites viewers to experience what is close to them. She imparts new meaning to light in her works, light which does not exist merely as an invisible idea but assumes form in a concrete world and is connected to her perceptions of society and herself. Breaking away from the context of her previous work?which was based on an abstract and absolute concept of light?Ligyung suggests a concept of 'more light' which floats and varies in response to the movement of the body and associates itself with physical experience. The light that expands and floats boundlessly in the space within Ligyung's work is a metaphor for modern people and our invisible social system, embodied as a theme of expanded social horizons.
