Minji Ryu recalls the emotions she experienced while observing the landscape in her daily life and investigates the manner in which gathered images are displayed in paintings. As a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, she acknowledged the inevitable gap between the experience of gazing at reality and drawing it and took a moment to recognize the landscape that was shared through abstraction and conceptualization. Her paintings focus on the experience of seeing and reproduce the impression produced by substituting an object for a function consisting of light and darkness as a physical image. In this manner, the artist hopes that paintings will serve as a channel for evoking past experiences in the minds of the audience, so reviving their perspective on current life. 

Since 2018, “A tree with the street lamp” has been created simultaneously with digital work as part of a series she began in 2015 to document everyday experiences. The artist converted an oil painting on paper to a digital sketch using an iPad and captured her daily experiences in a format suitable for digital working methods. Instead of emphasizing the texture of the medium of oil painting, the artist focuses on the fundamental shape of the landscape by transferring attention to the shape and color of the image. In 2019, the solo exhibition <Moving Shapes> was held at Weekend and featured these 120 series of digital drawings.  

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