About the Exhibition Work
Waves Within III : Vibrant Colors
As the manifestation of material and non-material, and infinite nuance, Waves Within expresses a beautifully flowing movement of encounter across the boundaries of countries, cultures, communities, and individuals. The material and non-material rhythms created by intertwining across boundaries are a metaphor for creation, and you can find the artist's wishes for harmony from this continuous pictorial performance. Here, the visual rhythm formed by pictorial performance on the oil paints refers to the waves of non-material energy inherent in being in the world. The various nuances of color and material are pictorial metaphors for creation, and the rhythm and flow of color on the canvas expresses the encounter between materials. In other words, the artist's actions toward colors create both material and non-material encounters, which form an infinite nuance of sense and color. It is a pictorial metaphor for the flow and encounter of human beings existing as material and at the same time non-material, and their energy.
Bora Shin
Artist Bora Shin creates an artwork by applying oil paints in layers on a confined square canvas and scratching it before it dries. The colorful marks left in the painting with a unique texture sometimes look like water droplets or falling leaves. The hardness and concentration of paints, the force on the tool to scratch, and repeated shape determined by the speed and intensity of the action creates sensuous waves according to the movement and eyeline of the viewer or light reflex, and this fluid colors and rhythmic shapes let you imagine the vitality. Bora Shin's work is an actual incident and a metaphor for the infinite difference and repetition, like an essay in which small happenings of the everyday, that seem to be repeated forever, can be transformed into the variations by surrounding environments and various factors. Why say to waking up your senses in the daily life as if you perceive temperature and humidity changes on the way of summer through the artwork full of colors and momentary scents, and letting yourself fall into the inner waves in exuberant colors.