Wednesday is Indigo Blue, Daejeon Creative Center Exhibition

The Daejeon Museum of Art will hold the 2021 creative center exhibition Synesthesia and Art: Wednesday Is Indigo Blue until December 19 at the Daejeon Museum of Art Creation Center. This exhibition focuses on synesthesia, which is a phenomenon in which one sense evokes a different sense in another area. In this exhibition, synesthetic experiences are recognized as subjective and viewed as a phenomenon that exists somewhere between science and reality. Synesthetic experiences are valuable since we can see the world from a different perspective, distant from our experiences. This is important because the combinations of synesthesia that can be experienced and felt differently by each person are infinite. This can inspire the expansion of creativity and emotion. 

In this exhibition, synesthetic experiences play an important role in discovering and developing an individual's uniqueness against a unified society, enabling visitors to think sensuously in various dimensions.

When entering the exhibition center, the first artworks are Birdsong (2021) and Sound-Color Synesthesia of Birdsong (2021) by artist Lee Jae-wook. These works are recreations of the art of Olivier Messiaen, a French modern composer, and Remedios Varo, a Spanish-born surrealist painter. Against the background of the Bryce Canyon in the United States, Lee recorded a video with Messiaen's birdsong music playing in the background, and Varo's painting, which becomes a focal point in this work, flashes continuously. Watching the video, you can think freely about the colors felt in the song of birds, or you can combine the flashing artwork with the sound of the birds. Artist Lee provides visitors with a place for a synesthetic experience. 

On the second floor of the exhibition hall, you can see the works of artists Lee Jae-yi, Jang Dong-wook, and Jeong So-jung.

​Artist Lee Jae-yi depicts a woman walking very slowly across a large white cloth in the four-channel video Tear (2002). The video is monochrome, so it may be recognized as a video without emotion at first glance, but the woman’s gestures and the cloth-cutting sounds result in a profound feeling. If we keep watching the video, we can feel deep loneliness and pain.

Seven of Jang Dong-wook’s paintings are displayed, including A Plastic Bag Containing Chocolate (2017), Intersection (2020), SUNPM230 (2018), and A Sleeping Bird (2018). Among them, A Vacant Lot (2019) represents a forgotten vacant lot with few people, expressing the anxiety and instability of the place and situation. The playground in the painting has lost its light and is fading away in isolation slowly being covered by grass. It is a work that reminds us of the forgotten places around us, becoming a medium that connects space and thought.

This exhibition is free and is being held in the Daejeon Creative Center at the Daejeon Museum of Art, located in Eunhaeng-dong. There are more artworks, so I recommend visiting if you want to see reality from a new perspective along with the experience of synesthesia.

 

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