GUEM Minjeong

I have worked on my art with the belief that media, video in particular, represent us or me, rather than virtual reality or illusion that I imagine.
 I think the beginning of media was closer to the essence that I intended to express from the outset, rather than an imaginary territory beyond reality. By making the space that I experience move and breathe, I would rather express the self in it – that is, the essence and value of humans. I wanted to take a closer look at it as a symbol representing the essence of people by moving a physical space, not a narrative film as virtual reality. In other words, although the images of space are used, my videos play as a medium to portray life, spirit or stories of people in the space, instead of a stage or background. In this regard, I see the two equal in the process of my trial of mixing video with other media, and wish that they become one, not dividing into a main character and the background by shuttling between the performer, object, sculpture and video. In addition, even light or a shadow in the space that I capture are more like the subject of emotion rather than the virtual territory. I gather that video, as a medium for light, represents the movement of an invisible spirit, not virtual, which clearly shows our mind. Although it involves technologies and techniques as media, media art can be a means of conveying emotions like modern painters’ brush strokes through the process of work by an artist.
 I think that sometimes media overturn and deconstruct the flow of time – past, present and future, and blend history with personal memories. Media also show psychological confusion between life and death, or numerous conflicting emotions, and provide an opportunity to look back, imagine and experience amid the accumulation of time, away from the framework of history – contrary to science in pursuit of speed, flow and development at a certain pace.

GUEM Minjeong
Born in 1977, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION
2017 present DFA. in Visual Arts,  School of Communication & Art, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2004    MFA. Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2001    BFA. Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2017    Heterotopia _Silent Wall, Art Space WATT, Seoul, Korea
2016    The Wall of Art Museum, National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art MediaWall, Seoul, Korea
2016    London Art fair Solo presentation, Hanmi Gallery, Business design centre, London
2015    The Rules of Life, KAIST Research & Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014    Separation Walls_Gallery SEJUL, Seoul, Korea
2014    The cold-hearted bottom, Hong-eun Art center, Seoul, Korea
2013    Breathing Wall_Abstract Breathing,Culture Station Seoul 284 RTO, Seoul, Korea
2009    a breathing view_Kumho Young Artist, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2007    Breathing Room, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006    The house, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2016    Alice’s adventures in wonderland-Virtual Reality, Suwon I-park Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2015    The Space above the Road, JCC Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015    The Garden of Artificial Light, Art space gallery JUNGMISO, Seoul, Korea
2015    Sema Media Salon, Buk Seoul Annex Building of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014    The enjoyable my House, Arco Art center, Seoul, Korea
2014    3Artists-Mind Space, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea
2014    A View From The Other Side -Korea/Finland Media Art, MunShin Museum, Seoul, Korea
2013    Art peace, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010    SeMA 2010 Chasm in Images, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010    Random Access, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, Korea