BER: 우민정
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Press Release Text갤러리조선은 2022년 2월8일부터 3월1일까지 우민정(WOO MinJung)의 두 번째 개인전 《벌》을 개최한다. 마판에 흙을 채워 수많은 서사들을 새기는 우민정 작가는 이번 전시를 통해 ‘시도하는 우리들’에 대해 이야기한다. 반복되고 끊임없이 지속되는 사람들의 행위를 통해 어쩌면 무의미할 수 있지만 내일을 만들기 위한 시도들의 중요성에 대해 이야기한다. 우민정의 작품에 등장하는 도상들인 코끼리, 뱀, 풀, 무지개, 밧줄과 천막 등은 각 인물들이 바라는 바를 의미하며, 그것은 항상 수직적으로 작용하여 언젠가 그 시도를 뛰어넘고자 하는 우리들의 염원이 담겨있다.제목의 ‘벌’은 움직이고, 소리가 나며, 끊임없이 무언가를 찾아다니는 것들을 대표한다. 언젠가는 무의미한 행동으로 이어질 수 있지만 그와 동시에 본능과 직결된다는 아이러니를 은유적으로 나타내는 소재이기도 하다. 계속되는 시도는 현대인들의 특별하고도 비슷한 삶에 대한 성찰을 제안한다.이번 전시는 이전과 달리 각 그림에 불설, 문학, 가곡의 구절 등의 서사를 가지고 있다. 하지만 이들은 완벽한 기승전결이 있는 시나리오라기보다는 누구나 한 번쯤 경험했을 법한, 어렴풋이 모두 가지는 그런 시시해 보일 수 있는 서사들이다. 있었다가 어느 순간 이유 없이 없어지기도 하고, 갑자기 솟아난 듯 영웅처럼 생기기도 하고, 부끄럽거나 비열하기도 한, 일상적인 것들이다. 인물들은 목적지를 향해 달리기도 하고, 추락하기도 한다. 거울을 보고 자신에게 빠지기도 하고, 신이 된 듯 사랑하기도 하고, 함정에 빠져 헤어지기도 하고, 자유롭게 수영하기도, 매달려 구걸하기도 하고, 함정에 빠지기도 한다. 일상적이지만 자신에게만큼은 특별한 순간들을 통해, 벌들의 삶을 위로 받길 바란다.
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A “wall” is a space for thought that can be viewed blankly, and it is a two-dimensional space that sees everything that passes by in front of it, recording all the events while getting scratched and stained occasionally. A wall is arguably the only three-dimensional plane on which time over time is piled. Let’s suppose this soil drawing board of mine is the wall.
I see countless attempts brushing past the wall. I also see that new attempts commonly found in my life or the lives of people around me make every day special. Every day is filled with ‘attempts’ that are invariably accompanied by the possibility of failure. These attempts are desperate and repetitive movements. Painting also consists of repetitive movements. It’s not done in a flash like thunder. One has to perform -- diligently like ants every single day -- activities such as drawing, line drawing, dotting, etching, surface grinding, and color field painting.
When people do something repetitively and consistently, it creates energy. What is actually more beautiful than the shining moment of sports would be countless attempts made for that very moment and the will that enabled that moment. At what point can the existence of an insignificant individual, whose ultimate meaning or necessity is hard to find, acquire justification and give meaning? And at what point can it shine? Only an attempt -- the movement at the moment of an attempt – burns a dot or dust, like the light flashes, into a shooting star that falls linearly. These attempts will give you the power to create tomorrow and give meaning.
Glimmering above the surface of the wall in my recent works(2022) are a group of numerous tiny movements. Like time passes day after day, these dots are repeated, make stories with a certain direction, and have their voices heard. Each story comes with a variety of themes and subjects. With grass and fire going upward and water falling down as the basic principle, a large roadmap with the order of gravity was drawn, in which position, balance, and relationship are created. And this is narrated in each scene.
This is a simple roadmap.
It’s divided into four sides. Water and its attributes at the bottom, desire at the right, death at the left, and, as the biggest obstacle and hope for a leap, flame at the upper part. Above fire is calm. It’s like a game going upward. In the center is a geometric shape that seems to emit yellow into the sky. I gave the color of yellow meanings such as a sacred thing, every moment of attempt and the will that creates all those moments, and the sweetness of the outcome. People who make attempts(honeybees) fly around this yellow thing, and stories occur in conjunction with subjects as these honeybees fly over each location. I used those stories as the structure of the picture. The bee represents people who always look for something and never stop making attempts. The snake(orange line) represents traps that can be found anywhere and can penetrate everything. The elephant represents a hurdle as well as an ideal. Between those animals appear subjects including murex, scale, mountain, balance pole, ball, the Holy Grail, apple, flower, grass, bird, star, cloud, cloth, window, monument, scale, and rope.
