St Lucas School of Arts Degree Show 2015

Artist list

Lynn Hofmann, Sangji Yun

Their academic artistic training consisted of artistic work attached to research and theory. Starting from content and meaning, their master year has been an on-going search for the combination between thinking and doing, research and intuition, content and execution, imagination and interpretation. The result is a balanced mixture of form, meaning, material and technique. The work of Lynn Hofmann and Sangji Yun submitted to the Master graduation show, is a personal mean to express their fascinations, interests and qualities. 

Lynn Hofmann has set up a research project called VUCA, which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. It revolves around the translation of abstract concepts into objects. This opposed to digitization, which aims at to dematerializing dematerialize the real world, she am wonderingthinks about ‘analogization’, about attempting to give the digital culture a physical shape. By using the human body as an interface, she wants to open up the dialogue between our digital and our physical selves.

Sangji Yun has worked on the passage of time. She explains that time is expressed in two different ways in Korean: Shi-gak and Shi-gan. Shi-gak consists of two meanings, the moment (Shi) and engraving (Gak). Therefore, Shi-gak is translateds as an engravement engraving made with the lapse passage of momenttime. Shi-gan, on the other hand, consists of Shi (moment) and Gan (in-between). Shi-gan, therefore represents space between moments, and the sense of space is embedded within the word. As time flows and is intangible, Therefore, itit is therefore very difficult to shape physically. However, as time passes, we often can often find the traces of time. She is interested in the past as it appears in the present. She goes back in time to her grandparents, both skilled craftsmen, to find the heritage passed on to her. Whilst working with paper sheets, she enjoys the passing of time. Her project revolves around traces left in our consciousness.