Anamnesis 29 Aug. - 29 Sep. 2025 _ Indipress Gallery_ Seoul

Time and Space are both imaginary concepts created by humans for our own convenience.

Although they have mostly vanished now, 35mm film projectors were once the standard in old movie theaters. As a child, watching the light travel from a tiny projector lens to the wall screen to manifest a complete image was nothing short of a marvel. I was captivated by the surreal impression created by the light—carrying the forms of objects through the void—and the faint afterimages born from the flow of time as frames blurred between the lens and the screen, appearing distorted depending on the angle of observation. We store this entire process in our perception as "still cuts"—a form that does not exist in reality. Through the motif of "Anamnesis" (a reason to recall), the artist’s inherent concepts are spatio-temporally reconstructed through the medium of video.

It is often said that a human being is a microcosm of the universe. I, too, came to exist in this space-time through the 'Big Bang' of birth. In that process, I have formed diverse relationships with countless people, objects, and situations. Among them, the intense recollection (calling forth of memory) is a natural phenomenon.

My father, the very source and reason for my existence, suddenly vanished from the space-time I inhabit. While I can no longer face him in the time and space I currently experience, he exists vividly within my consciousness. Perhaps the reason the final hour I spent with him before his passing feels more intense than all the time we spent together before is this: a true Anamnesis created by my subconscious. It was an attempt to make time flow as slowly as possible—since I could not stop it—to extend our synchronicity and coexistence, even if only for a moment.

The longest minute is the most recent one, and the most visible things are those closest to our eyes. I prepared this exhibition with a firm belief that something exists within the human subconscious that transcends such ordinary truths. ( Sooyeon Hong )