2015 - 2016
I have spent more than a year living in Berlin and tried to think about what to paint or what painting is to me. Meeting friends, learning German, working part time, night life and hang out with different kind of artists from other countries, all these brought me a completely different living experience and it was absolutely inspiring. The subject matter I paint focus on the blemishes, cracks, stains on the walls I saw in the streets, especially started from the walls I saw in a graveyard. They are all about memory and time. As well as the abandoned objects I found in the street were so sensational that they were all used and showed a lot of marks. I created a composition of painting and found objects to form a scene that may recall someone’s memory which could be precise or vague. Chung believes that no matter when our memories are recalled or come flooding back out of the blue, sometimes we just cannot tell whether the memories are completely true or not. Since memory is kind of like a dream, perhaps more realistic, but we can barely certain that the every little details in our memories precisely emerged in the past. He therefore takes memory as the subject matter of my paintings because of its vague character which he thinks this can make the viewers doubt their memories and spend some times to ponder, and thus instead of canvas I mostly used daily objects as the painting surface. These objects themselves are often seen at the ambient conditions in daily life and easily recognized, they are so inevitably stuck in our memories. I paint the crevice, blemish, dirty streak and smudge in the walls on the objects to create a composition so as to trigger the memories and hence the doubt of the viewers.
I have spent more than a year living in Berlin and tried to think about what to paint or what painting is to me. Meeting friends, learning German, working part time, night life and hang out with different kind of artists from other countries, all these brought me a completely different living experience and it was absolutely inspiring. The subject matter I paint focus on the blemishes, cracks, stains on the walls I saw in the streets, especially started from the walls I saw in a graveyard. They are all about memory and time. As well as the abandoned objects I found in the street were so sensational that they were all used and showed a lot of marks. I created a composition of painting and found objects to form a scene that may recall someone’s memory which could be precise or vague. Chung believes that no matter when our memories are recalled or come flooding back out of the blue, sometimes we just cannot tell whether the memories are completely true or not. Since memory is kind of like a dream, perhaps more realistic, but we can barely certain that the every little details in our memories precisely emerged in the past. He therefore takes memory as the subject matter of my paintings because of its vague character which he thinks this can make the viewers doubt their memories and spend some times to ponder, and thus instead of canvas I mostly used daily objects as the painting surface. These objects themselves are often seen at the ambient conditions in daily life and easily recognized, they are so inevitably stuck in our memories. I paint the crevice, blemish, dirty streak and smudge in the walls on the objects to create a composition so as to trigger the memories and hence the doubt of the viewers.
I attempted to soak part of the painting into the water in the metal bucket which I grabbed from the street and it was covered by cement. Together with the towel, led light inside the plastic bag, twigs and thread they formed a painting installation that implies a fictional memory of daily life objects.
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