Utopia = Reality
자연과 감정이 재구성된 세계
작품
비밀의 정원
“What lies hidden in the spaces between memory and imagination?”
기억과 상상 사이, 그 숨겨진 공간에는 무엇이 있을까요?
A series exploring intimate landscapes where nature becomes a vessel for hidden emotions.
자연이 숨겨진 감정의 그릇이 되는 내밀한 풍경을 탐구하는 시리즈입니다.
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“If you were only passing through this forest, what would you pause to look at instead of just walking by?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Are you looking at what is here now, or waiting for something that has not yet bloomed?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Can you remember a tiny thing that unexpectedly changed your whole day?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Are you closer right now to slow-growing change or to sudden transformation?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Within this calm scene, where do you sense a hidden alertness or tension?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“What is one thing in your life that is moving forward very slowly, but still moving?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“What work do you keep doing faithfully, even when no one seems to notice?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“If you had to choose one feeling you are most drawn to right now, what would it be and why?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
무심한 봄
“Can beauty exist without the weight of intention?”
의도의 무게 없이도 아름다움이 존재할 수 있을까요?
Works that capture the spontaneous beauty of renewal and natural cycles.
재생과 자연의 순환이 지닌 자발적인 아름다움을 포착한 작품들입니다.
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“When does your own voice flow out most effortlessly, like birdsong?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Can you recall a moment when you didn't need many words to be understood?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“If you stopped by this water for a while, what would you like to set down and rest from?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“If you could brighten just one person's day today, who comes to mind?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Looking at this sparkle, which happy moment in your life feels most similar to it?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
사막의 이야기
“What stories emerge from silence and solitude?”
고요와 고독에서 어떤 이야기가 피어날까요?
Narratives born from vast emptiness and the resilience found within.
광활한 공허와 그 안에서 발견되는 회복력으로부터 태어난 서사입니다.
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“What is one sentence you would like to tell your future, grown-up self?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“When you imagine yourself growing old, what scares you most and what are you most curious or hopeful about?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“Knowing that everything will one day end, how does that change the way you see this moment?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“After the world seems to shake, what in your life quietly goes on as if nothing happened?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
시간의 물
“How does time flow through the landscapes of our consciousness?”
시간은 우리 의식의 풍경을 어떻게 흘러가는 걸까요?
Meditations on temporality, memory, and the fluid nature of experience.
시간성, 기억, 그리고 경험의 유동적 본질에 대한 명상입니다.
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
“If the feelings on your heart were the surface of this water, what color would they be today?”
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
“Toward a place that still feels far away, what is one tiny step you could take today?”
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
“If 'someday' became 'now', which inner place would you want to visit first?”
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
“If you forgot success and failure for a moment and focused only on the fact that you are growing, what would feel a little lighter?”
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
“Where in this painting would you choose to pause and catch your breath?”
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
“Where would you choose to sit in this forest?”
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
임혜정 (b.1981/Korea)
Department of Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
The artist explores a version of nature reconstructed through imagination, rather than depicting "nature as it is." This nature is not a simple landscape, but another world shaped by the emotions and experiences she has lived through. Her work invites viewers not just to look at the pieces, but to follow the inner narrative within them.
Within her practice, the artist presents the perspective of "Utopia = Reality." At the point where ideals and reality blur, her works exist as living worlds that are continuously refined and transformed, rather than fixed forms. Within this worldview, complex emotions such as oppression, melancholy, and healing naturally merge.
The visual language she develops is composed of imaginative images rooted in personal experience. It is less about reproducing reality and more about reinterpreting and transforming the world. Organic forms flow freely across her canvases, carrying traces of emotion. The objects that appear in her works are not meant to hold specific symbolic meaning, but rather reflect the artist's experiences and imagination as byproducts.
This exhibition is the culmination of the artist's temperament, emotions, and the way she engages with the world. Her works approach the viewer not as singular objects, but as sensory spaces to linger in and interpret. Within these spaces, we follow the inner worlds she constructs, encountering new possibilities for emotion and thought.
작가는 '현실의 자연'이 아닌, 상상력으로 재구성된 자연을 탐구한다. 이 자연은 단순한 풍경 묘사가 아니라, 작가가 겪어온 감정과 경험을 바탕으로 형성된 또 하나의 세계다. 그녀의 작업은 관람자가 작품을 '바라보는 것'을 넘어, 내면의 서사를 따라 들어가도록 이끈다.
작가는 자신의 작업 안에서 "Utopia = Reality"라는 관점을 제시한다. 이상과 현실의 경계가 흐려지는 이 지점에서 작품은 고정된 형태에 머물지 않고, 끊임없이 다듬어지고 변화하는 살아 있는 세계로 존재한다. 이러한 세계관에는 억압, 우울, 치유와 같은 복합적 정서가 자연스럽게 녹아 있다.
그녀가 구축하는 시각적 언어는 개인적 경험에 기반한 상상적 이미지로 이루어져 있으며, 이는 사실을 재현하려는 목적이 아니라 세계를 새롭게 해석하고 전환하려는 시도에 가깝다. 그녀의 화면에는 유기적 형태가 자유롭게 흐르며, 감정의 흔적을 고스란히 품고 있다. 작품에 등장하는 오브제들은 특별한 상징적 의미보다는, 작가의 경험과 상상을 반영한 부산물로 이해할 수 있다.
이 전시는 작가의 성향과 감정, 그리고 세계와 관계 맺는 방식이 집약된 결과물이다. 작품은 관람자에게 하나의 오브제가 아니라, 머무르고 해석할 수 있는 감각의 공간으로 다가온다. 그 속에서 우리는 작가가 구축한 내면의 세계를 따라가며 새로운 감정과 사고의 가능성을 마주하게 된다.