Lee Chaeyoung

1984 Born in Seoul, Korea

2008 Graduated from the Oriental Painting Department of Duksung Women's University with a bachelor's degree

2010 Graduated from the Oriental Painting Department of Duksung Women's University with a master's degree

Currently works and lives in Seoul

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014  

Between the Scenery, Multipurpose Art Hall EMU, Seoul

2011 

 The Hollow Abyss, Gallery Doll, Seoul

2009   Seoul's Night, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015 

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing   

Something Else Seen with Mind’s Eye, Gallery Lux, Seoul

When Every Day Reveals Itself from Out of the Blue, Art Center White Block, Paju

2014  

Draw and Draw, Gyunggi University Hoyeon Gallery, Suwon

The Great Artist, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul

Oh! City, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju

Lee Chaeyoung: In my daily life, I from time to time see delicate and disparate elements. I come to feel that a familiar place where I always walk slowly becomes special scene. To me, even a place near my house feels disparate and full of curious things. Then something new comes to me and goes away from me. And when I see such a place being abandoned and becoming a ruin, I have a heavy heart. The place becomes lifeless even in the middle of a busy day, while street lamps illuminate it through the silent night. I look at the signboards besides the streets and paths I walk along. When I pass by through urban landscape, I for no apparent reason feel captured by something sad.

On the contrary, the pictures of rapidly changing city scenes are also filled with opposites. I feel something familiar but also different and strange in my daily life, and sometimes stay idle, feeling empty or bored in the afternoon. The untraveled streets at night feel new and different to after lights are gone. Still and deserted, the streets are filled only with silence and calm. Such places are so easy to overlook that they create unique emotions. Freud mentioned that there is a suppressed unconsciousness under our familiar reason, and that and clear consciousness and the suppressed unconsciousness can sometimes return. The fact that a familiar landscape can still feel strange reminds us of Freud’s Canny or Uncanny Logic.