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Statistical Landscape
Lee Chang-jin - Flowing Landscapes, Connected Memories
What you're seeing isn't a painting but a reconstructed landscape—"contemporary landscape painting" created by stitching together memory fragments.
Lee collects forgotten paintings from residential areas and second-hand markets—old landscape scrolls, traditional albums that hung in someone's living room for years. He cuts, pastes, and reconstructs them into completely new scenes.
This isn't simple collage but social experimentation reconstructing "landscape" itself. The result is familiar yet strange—a landscape containing hundreds of actual paintings, creating something more complex than any single reality.
Important in Lee's work is how he handles tradition. Rather than preserving it in museums, he carefully extracts time layers and rearranges them with contemporary sensibility, boldly placing margins and scraps in the foreground.
This perfectly matches the biennale theme "Neighbors of Civilizations"—different eras and styles mix without collision, forming new visual order through civilizational dialogue.
Lee collects forgotten paintings from residential areas and second-hand markets—old landscape scrolls, traditional albums that hung in someone's living room for years. He cuts, pastes, and reconstructs them into completely new scenes.
This isn't simple collage but social experimentation reconstructing "landscape" itself. The result is familiar yet strange—a landscape containing hundreds of actual paintings, creating something more complex than any single reality.
Important in Lee's work is how he handles tradition. Rather than preserving it in museums, he carefully extracts time layers and rearranges them with contemporary sensibility, boldly placing margins and scraps in the foreground.
This perfectly matches the biennale theme "Neighbors of Civilizations"—different eras and styles mix without collision, forming new visual order through civilizational dialogue.