Liquid Domusong

Exhibition Description

Domusong. The word with cute pronunciation that you have to curl your lips all three syllables is a sticker that is cut in shape, you take off and stick on.

As you know, Domusong is a must-have item for diary decoration. And artist Chae-hee is actually a professional. Actually, I wonder if we should distinguish Chae-hee, the artist, from Chae-hee who is in earnest enough to order the sticker she wants. She has been looking for canvas and paint because she’s not satisfied with the sticker. It’s easy to see the adjective contradiction in the combination of the words “liquid” and “domusong,” but it’s inevitable in Chae-hee’s diary decoration that it’s better to be a liquid.

Everyone has their own style and habits when they make their own diary. What’s written in the diary, and the emotions that the act of embellishing as the process and the result can’t be all the same. If you think of Chae-hee’s painting as an extension of the story, it’s not a few lines of storytelling with additional decorative elements, but a productive daggers filled with images of the story’s improbable moment from the forgotten facts. The story is replaced by a chain of noun images, and the physical nature of handwriting is transformed into the physical nature of brush strokes. But there’s something I need to make clear here. What Chae-hee really wants to record is that it’s much closer to physical reality than image objects themselves, so the reality at the end of the brush is that the feeling of “cutting out” the image objects like a sticker is translated into a picture.

Now, remind yourself that the origin of ‘domusong’ is the hydraulic cutter manufacturer Thompson.

Domusong. Randomly placed, spread on canvas with flat brush strokes and minimal individual shading, not captured in the vision of specific spaces. Thinly dried, the texture of the canvas surface sizzles like noise on the screen and vibrates fine, which is a contour that has been dried with a firm, sensitive touch. The logic of “cutting” is also changed in many ways, by cutting the canvas into a combination of long screens reminiscent of “Mate” and actively suggesting the outside of the screen, as in the case of flower-like or a still-life canvas. As a result, “Liquid Domusong” looks like Ikebana of memory that is losing its story and dying in the body. But there’s no sense of privilege here, “my memory,” which has become the ingredient. We, of course, can’t exactly determine where Domusong is made on the other side of the brush, and Chae-hee’s diary is to give a paradoxical mass to the world that my body has cut off. The paint that was drip-painted like the last sigh looks like the blood of the Domusong, or a sign of mourning for the things that have not yet been done.

Written by Se-in Kim

Dates

January 2 til 12

Curator

Chae-hee Shin, Se-in Kim

Artists

Chae-hee Shin

Poster Design

Woo-jeong Lee

Selected Images