Works
Overview
우리는 지금 어디에 있으며, 어디로 향해 가고 있는가. 대봉동 갤러리소헌에서 이윤동 작가의 텍스트 콜라주 작업들을 모아 초대전을 연다. 작품에 주로 등장하는 것은 풀과 꽃, 더러는 마른 풀과 마른 꽃이 함께하는 작고 고요한 인간의 모습이다. 배경을 이루는 찢어낸 신문 조각과 인쇄물들은 곧 시간과 기억의 층위가 되어 화면 위에 쌓여진다. 그리고 하나의 흐름으로 이어져 인생의 여정을 그려낸다. 그 길 위에서 우리는 스스로를 마주하게 되고, 그 끝에서 남는 것은 조용히 머무는 시간, 사유, 그리고 사라지지 않는 고요이다.
“Where are we now, and where are we heading?”
Lee Yun-dong’s work using Text Collage, which began in 2003, developed in earnest through an exhibition held during his one-year stay in Canada in 2004 as a visiting scholar. Over the following approximately seven years, the Journey series continued as continued as a single continuum, with torn newspaper fragments and printed materials accumulating on the surface as layers of time and memory.
The work is created through a process of patience — tearing by hand, attaching, covering, and layering again and again. Time siowly permeates the material, and the surface gradually becomes not a single layer, but a dense accumulation of overlapping memories.
Ultimately, these works are like a path.
Though it stretches on without a clearly defined destination, it is along this path that we come to face ourselves.
And what remains at its end is time that quietly lingers, and a stillness that does not fade.
Within that stillness, the artist speaks in a gentle voice: “Where are we now, and where are we heading?”
This work series is part of Lee Yun Dong’s collage practice,
to which the artist devoted approximately eight years.
It reveals a key moment in which his abstract painting language
was being extended through a different approach.
Through a restrained composition, an intuitive sense of form,
and warm fields of color, the work quietly captures
the varied textures of life.
Within a journey that had long centered on painting,
this period of collage emerges as a brief yet significant passage—
one in which the artist’s sensitivity and contemplation
are revealed with particular delicacy.