Seok Lee - PARANORM
The title of the exhibition – PARANORM – which means diviant from normality, gives an indication of the complexity of the visual language used by the artist Seok Lee. The traditional norm in figurative painting is to paint landscapes, architecture or the human figure. All these genres can be found in Seok Lee’s paintings too, but with a fundamental difference: the traditional representation of interior rooms transcends into an abstract vacuum. Starting from realistic photographs Lee deliberately places visual cuts, swirls and spectral strips into the picture plain and in doing so transforms these images into something intangible that invites and eludes visual appropriation at the same time. The dissolution of forms and figures increases the distance to the depicted image. “I fracture and alienate the visual context not to negate it but to explore alternative visual meanings. For me the potential for formulations that defy the expedience of simple reproduction and unambigousness only comes with refraction and disruption of the obvious. In other words: I counter the plausible images of our media world with my very own images.” (Seok Lee)
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