Namkyung Lee
Published: 10.01.2025
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Namkyung Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. She majored in jewellery design in Graduate School of Design at Kookmin University, and she is currently working as a contemporary jewellery artist.Statement
Places or others, stayed remain as images. These places, in which we stared and felt different emotions, are fixed as scenes. The photographic images I use represent those parts of a place where gazes fell and rested. They exist as a means of recording often incidental, yet always subjective, memories.For me, spaces with windows and the views through them remain as images from memories, like scenes from photographs. Memories of windows exist as symbols of recall and contain a mixture of specific spaces and their connected feelings, in this sense they are a medium, connecting not only the inner and outer world, but also the past and present. The feelings and memories aroused by gazing through windows stay with us as images. Furthermore, each scene generated by memories remains a perpetual reminiscence through distortion and layering.
In my work, the concept of space is just as important as the image. The spaces that the images depict (both directly and indirectly) could be seen as metaphorical mediums. They may represent empirical memories of places visited and stayed in. Likewise, they could also signify virtual spaces in which memories have become confused or conflated. Finally, they might also be seen as redolent of abstract spaces in which memories are entirely reconstructed or imagined. Through these ambiguities, I hope my work is visually engaging, but also has a wider value based on common experiences and thought processes.
About the IMPRINT series
Imprint is one of my archives for visually expanding or condensing the concept of words that have connections such as image, memory, duplication, repetition, fade, remains, reminiscence, etc. These words are used in the process of expressing the ambiguity of the image and provide various expressive elements.
The process of images being repeatedly copied or duplicated and the spatial forms they create by interlocking with each other shape the images of the past that people have. In the process, the images that are crushed and blurred take on an unclear form and try to provide a clear visuality.
This metaphorically implies that the images that remain in the mind are recalled, forgotten, and distorted repeatedly and that they stay as beautiful as possible.
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