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ÀÌÁ¤·ÏÀº <Decoding Scape>¿¡¼­ ÀÚ¿¬°ú ÄÚµå, Çö½Ç°ú Ç㱸 »çÀÌÀÇ ÀÌÁßÈ­, ÀÌÁ¾(ì¶ðú)È­¸¦ ÅëÇØ ÀÚ¿¬ÀÌ ¸»Çϴ ħ¹¬ÀÇ ¼¼°è¸¦ °íÀ¯ÇÑ ¸í»çµé·Î ºÒ·¯³»¾î Ç¥ÇöÇÏ¿´´Ù. ÀÚ¿¬Ç³°æ ȤÀº ±Ù¿ø°ú ¿ª»ç¸¦ ±â¾ïÇÏ°Ô ÇØÁÖ´Â °íÀε¹, ž ÁÖÀ§¿¡ ±âÀÔµÈ »óÇü¹®ÀÚµéÀº ´Ü¼øÈ÷ ±³È¯Àû ±âÈ£µé·Î ½Çü¸¦ »ó½ÇÇÏ°í ºÎÀ¯ÇÏ´Â ±âÇ¥µéÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó Á¸Àç°¡ ÃâÇöÇϸç ÁýÀ» Áþ´Â Àå¼ÒÀÌÀÚ »ç°ÇÀÌ ³õÀÌ´Â ÁöÁ¡ÀÌ´Ù. ±×·¯³ª ±âÈ£µé·Î ºÐÀýµÈ ±× ÁýÀº ¿µ¿øÇÑ °ÍÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó Ãæ¸¸ÇÑ Àǹ̰¡ °¡½ÃÈ­µÇ±â À§Çؼ­ °è¼ÓÇØ¼­ °íÃÄ ¾º¾î Áú¼ö ÀÖ´Â ÈçÀûÀ¸·Î ¹«ÇÑÈ÷ ¿¬±âµÇ´Â ¡®Â÷¿¬(ó¬æÅ, différance)¡¯ÀÌ ¸¸µå´Â ÀÓ½ÃÀûÀÎ ÁýÀÏ»ÓÀÌ´Ù. µû¶ó¼­ ÇѱÛ, ¾ËÆÄºª, ¾Æ¶óºñ¾Æ¼ýÀÚÀÇ ´Ù¾çÇÑ ¾¾¾ÑµéÀÌ °ü¶÷ÀÚ °¢ÀÚ »õ·Î¿î ÅØ½ºÆ®·Î ½á³ª°¥ ¼ö ÀÖ°Ô ¼ÒÅëÀÇ ÀåÀ» ¿­¾îÁÖ´Â <<»ý¸í³ª¹«>>´Â ¹Ù·Î Àü½Ã ÁÖÁ¦°¡ ÀÀÁýµÈ »ó¡ ±×ÀÚüÀÌ´Ù. ÀÛ°¡´Â ÀÚ¿¬ÀÇ Á¸Àç¿Í Àǹ̸¦ À̹ÌÁö-±âÈ£·Î Ç®¾î³½ Á¶ÇüÀûÀÌ°í »ó»óÀûÀΠdz°æ ÅØ½ºÆ®¸¦ ÅëÇØ Àΰ£ÀÇ Áö½ÄÀ¸·Î °íÁ¤½Ãų ¼ö ¾ø´Â °³³äÀû ÀνÄÀÇ Çù¼ÒÇÔÀ» ´©¼³Çϸç ÀÚ¿¬ÀÇ ³»Àû ŸÀÚ¼º¿¡ ÁÖ¸ñÇÏ°Ô ÇØÁÖ¾ú´Ù. ºñ·Ï dz°æ¿¡ ±âÀÔµÈ »óÇü¹®ÀÚµéÀÌ °ü¶÷ÀÚ¿¡°Õ Áï°¢ ÇØµ¶Çϱ⠾î·Á¿î ¾ÏÈ£µéó·³ ±â½ÀÇÏÁö¸¸ ±× ±âÈ£µéÀ» ÇØµ¶ÇؾßÇÒ ¾ÏÈ£°¡ ¾Æ´Ñ À̹ÌÁö ¹®ÀÚ·Î º»´Ù¸é °ü¶÷ÀÚ °³°³ÀÎÀÇ »ó»ó ÀÛ¿ëÀ» ÅëÇØ ´Ù½Ã »õ·Î¿î Àǹ̷Π»çÀ¯µÉ ¼ö Àֱ⠶§¹®¿¡ ±âÈ£·Î °¡µæ Âù ¿ìÁÖ ¼Ó¿¡ ¿ì¸® °¢ÀÚµµ »çÀ¯ÇÏ´Â ±âÈ£ÀÌÀÚ Ç༺ÀÌ µÉ ¼ö ÀÖÁö ¾ÊÀ»±î?
 
 
 
±èÈ­ÀÚ(¼º±Õ°ü´ëÇб³ ÇÏÀ̺긮µå ¹Ì·¡¹®È­¿¬±¸¼Ò) / 2012
 
 
 
 
Decoding Scape
 
Photographer Lee Jeong-rok has continued landscape work to interpret as sacred places by recording the unseen and dynamic wonders of nature through a contemplative view or intervening directly, centering around plains, fields and mudflats in the Southwest, with his mythological world view looking for the prototype of human life and culture. Especially, ¡°Mythological Landscape¡± and ¡°Private Sanctuary¡± that were shaped by transparent orbs or shining seeds like eggs put at places where the sky and the earth connect and produce life, let us witness natural life transfer to human history; moreover, his ¡°Tree of Life¡± in which sacred energy spreads in light let us imagine the prototypical mythology of humankind. In his ¡°Decoding Scape¡±, the photographer expanded his mythological view of nature to a made-made cultural place or a place where violence has been inflicted, and sought to communicate directly with nature through codifying a language of silence in nature. Namely, he decoded through light in forms like hieroglyphs based on Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory contained in the consonants and Three Materials Theory of vowels in Hangeul and marked down the rich natural language that is undecipherable by conventional human codes, though it is omnipresent in nature. He transformed the mystery of existence that is indescribable by already created codes into image characters, symbols that are a combination of light waves, consonants, or consonants and vowels.
 
Signs are a way of understanding the world and a place to make relationships with others. As semiologist Perth noticed the ability of signs that talk to us in the universe full of signs, the appearance of nature and the dynamic power of sound were translated into different languages by various human cultures and became the foundation for communication. As the mysterious being of nature has transcendence that cannot be completely translated by a human language, the photographer expressed, in his ¡°Decoding Scape¡±, through landscape text, the silent message that nature sends to us by shaping or combining Hangeul, a phonogram, through hieroglyphs that mimic the form or meaning of nature. Light that signs radiate is a place ¡°of opening¡± where the existence of nature is exposed and plays the role of opening for it to appear in the ¡°phenomenon¡± of hieroglyphs. Rich meaning and colors that are possessed by nature with a circulation of the past, the present and the future which are impossible to prescribe with own homogeneous meaning, are seen as doubled through light waves covering signs.
 
Codes that are combined with the consonants like ¤±, ¤², ¤½, ¤µ and ¤· (for water, fire, grass, life and void) which derived from elementary memories of the prototypical location of nature or a civilized place, and basic vowels symbolic of the sky, the earth and human, became ¡°symbols¡± of nature as a complete whole whose parts cannot be taken apart through attributes of landscape, though codes are ¡°parts¡± of mythological nature. As was mentioned in the work notes, ¡°¤¸¡± that is floated on the sea and on the mud flat is broken up into ¡°¤Ñ" looking like a horizon and ¡°¤µ" looking like a human standing on two feet, symbolizing the throbs of life. Here Yin-Yang and Five Elements and universal order embedded in nature were not made abstract as signifiers, i.e., means to simply transmit messages, but were shaped as a whole with proper nouns. Light opens the existence that was hidden in the violent and rational consciousness of humans and shines the road to symbolic and emotional communication for meaning that cannot be conceptualized.
Lee Jeong-rok expressed the world of silence in nature by recalling proper nouns through doubling or differentiating by nature and code, and reality and fiction in ¡°Decoding Scape¡±. Dolmens that help us remember natural landscape, or sources and history, and hieroglyphs inscribed around towers are not just signifiers that lose substance and float, as simple signs for exchange, but geographical points where beings appear, houses are built, and incidents take place. The house that is segmented by signs, however, is not a permanent one but a temporary one that is a trace to be replaced continuously so as to visualize the complete meaning and shaped by différance that is postponed infinitely. Therefore, ¡°Tree of Life¡± is a symbol itself that is a concentration of themes of an exhibition as it opens a venue of communication for diverse seeds of Hangeul, the alphabet, and Arabic numeral to be rewritten as new texts by spectators themselves. The photographer exposed the narrowness of conceptual cognizance that is not to be fixed through human knowledge and let us focus on the internal otherness of nature through plastic and imaginative landscape text that unraveled the existence and meaning of nature by images and signs. Though the hieroglyphs inscribed in the landscape look strange as codes that are instantly undecipherable to spectators, if they look at the signs as image characters not as codes to be decoded, they could be thought of as a new meaning through the individual imagination of spectators and thus, could we ourselves be thinking signs and planets in the universe full of signs?
 
 
Kim Hwa-ja (Hybrid Institute for Future Culture, Sungkyunkwan University) / 2012
 
 

 
 

Total 20
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20 Decoding Scape / ±èÈ­ÀÚ °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-14 6279
19 Tree of Life / Àü½Âº¸ °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 6084
18 Decoding Scape / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5988
17 Tree of Life / ÁÖ¿ë¹ü °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5863
16 Glocal site / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5771
15 Tree of Life - ¼Û¼öÁ¤ °ü¸®ÀÚ 11-06 5733
14 Aquarium / Áøµ¿¼± °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5552
13 Mythic Scape / ¹Ú¿µÅà °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5431
12 Mythic Scape / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5278
11 Private sacred place / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5275
10 Tree of Life / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-17 5271
9 Mythic Scape / ±è³²Áø °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5215
8 Aquarium / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 4846
7 Nabi / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 03-23 4644
6 Clarias / ¹ÚÁÖ¼® °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 4413
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