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Tree of Life
 
While life goes on, a tree is blooming in the forest. When it's not a flower, however, can I say it blooms? Yet, the tree is blooming with new life, while light hangs from every branch. Like a wood that is so deep as to be spiritual or sea that is so calm as to be serene, the venues that give birth to trees cement my belief further. Here, I even feel solemn as if great nature pours all her force to marshall all subterranean energies for that single tree, as in the film Avatar.
Lee Jeong-rok is involved in the work of moving a single tree to a holy place and giving it new life. The tree used in such an extraordinary act of Lee Jeong-rok should be anything but mediocre, so to the artist, the tree in the work is tantamount to a 'sacred tree'. As people worship a sacred tree through which heaven and earth, god and humans meet as in shamanism, the artist places the tree where nature's deep echoes lie and gather up her spirituality. Can a tree express the whole wondrous mystery of nature, which exists but is more surprising because it remains invisible? So, the artist lights up every tree branch. For light that comes from darkness is the psychic medium that connects the visible world with the unseen world.
No matter how profound the artist's thought on light is, if the light has come from Photoshop, it could be a little silly. What is amazing about Lee's work is that the artist himself picked some extraordinary-looking tree, moved it to the forest, and installed it there, before he obtained that one cut of analog film by using on the site the photoshoot requirements in over ten stages. So, it's no exaggeration to say that you have to brood there at least a week on the site to get one single picture. While Lee Jeong-rok's idea of rapporting with nature in his own terms is novel, the arduous process even smacks of religious devotion. Therefore, his 'Tree of Life' makes sure that even the nature-worshipping mind, hidden in our genes, blooms anew.
Song Soo-jeong, exhibition planner.
 

 
 

Total 20
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20 Decoding Scape / ±èÈ­ÀÚ °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-14 6280
19 Tree of Life / Àü½Âº¸ °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 6086
18 Decoding Scape / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5989
17 Tree of Life / ÁÖ¿ë¹ü °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5864
16 Glocal site / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5772
15 Tree of Life - ¼Û¼öÁ¤ °ü¸®ÀÚ 11-06 5734
14 Aquarium / Áøµ¿¼± °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5553
13 Mythic Scape / ¹Ú¿µÅà °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5432
12 Mythic Scape / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5278
11 Private sacred place / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5276
10 Tree of Life / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-17 5272
9 Mythic Scape / ±è³²Áø °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 5217
8 Aquarium / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 4848
7 Nabi / Artist Statement °ü¸®ÀÚ 03-23 4645
6 Clarias / ¹ÚÁÖ¼® °ü¸®ÀÚ 02-12 4415
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