CRITIC - VIDEO (Eng)
Innate desires drive people from all corners of the world to seek solace by the ocean when they experience shifts in their emotions or yearn for healing and self-reflection. Author Mina Shim, utilizing materials that prompt introspection in people, endeavors to stimulate their inner selves through profound sentiments over nature and recollections of past experiences. Her work is fundamentally grounded in the realm of media art, employing oceanic themes and digitalized color-field projection to create abstract representations of ocean surfaces. These art pieces serve as means to emphasize the importance of self-examination, with the primary aim of using stimulative art to evoke memories and foster circumstances conducive to self-reflection. Within this series, her media art can be categorized as both digitalized media art and a series of ocean footage works.
Ditigtalized media art is – a transformative process that involves translating simple, two-dimensional flattened images into multi-dimensional works of art, exemplified by the author’s abstract ocean art series.
A series of ocean footage works is – based on our inspiration from our inherent tendency to view the ocean as a place for contemplation and meditation. When gazing at the rising waves along a riverbank or by the ocean, people often find themselves reflecting on their lives and reminiscing about past experiences. These moments can have a profound impact, at times strengthening our intrinsic motivation to push ahead our lives and move onto the next phase of them. From this perspective, waves perpetually move forward or sideways as they always have. However, by employing the timely use of a rewind function to reverse their motion backwards or by properly adjusting the speed controller to slow down their movement, it seems like our present stands still, unlike the reality which is always forward to the future. This create an opportunity to enlighten the realm of past experiences which can only be healed by looking back our past. The author believes that all our agony and suffering originate within ourselves, and their solutions can also be found within our intrinsic selves. Therefore, that’s the reason why she endeavors to convey intrinsic healing power through images of the ocean, simulating our past-present-future at the same time.