Monday, 30 August 2010

ran hwang: absence and presence



Pure poetry in these installations of Ran Hwang, a korean artist who works in NY.
Her works are very close to pixel art, but so far away from digital world. She uses everyday's stuff, like pins and buttons for creating images full of delicacy and frailty. The choice of dealing with these objects is due to the fact that they are common and ordinary, like the existence of human beings. And also these pieces aren't stick or fixed to the support, so they could move and be moved by the air, by the time, by the circumstance: also this underlines the ephemeral of her art.
For Ran, art is a form of meditation and the subjects are often inspired by buddhist theories: button after button, she finds herself....a repetitive manual work to find the interior peace.

Against the histeria of our times.







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