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The Past, The Present-Garden

Jeong, SoYoun’s video work installed in the Gallery presents different periods of time in the same place. She installed a CCD camera in the garden of a house which is in front of the gallery, recorded it, and shows its gradual changes through ten TV monitors installed in the gallery. Nine TV monitors of them show the landscape of the garden in the past while one of them displays the garden in the present. The gallery space has been decorated just like a living room. And ten TV monitors have been installed on the wall just like windows or paintings. The scenes of ten TV monitors are those of the garden in different periods of time. The small garden full of roses and trees changes itself gradually as time goes by. We can see from these ten TV monitors those changes along with different periods of time, such as morning, evening, rainy day and windy day. In seemingly stationary images in a sunny day, their movement still could be sensed from leaves and flowers trembling in the breeze and small flying bugs. Just as Impressionist Monet tried to express all the changes of the scene according to different periods of time, Jeong, SoYoun continues and develops his search with her video works. The images of ten TV monitors Change even the past and the present themselves, so that the very division of the past and the present becomes ambiguous.

Kim, MiJin (Art Critic)
-Transcribe a passage from the critique of the third solo exhibition