Reconstructing Sequences

Jong Oh

〈Light Drawing (Forest) #1〉, 2024.

Installation, LED lighting, dimensions variable.
Commissioned by the National Asian Culture Center. Courtesy of the artist.

Based on a keen understanding of spatial components and contexts, Jong Oh creates flexible sculptures as if drawing them, prompting the discovery of new forms depending on perspective and motion. Light Drawing (Forest) #1 is a spatial drawing that reconstructs the ACC’s architectural elements with linear lighting within the organic space of a crepe myrtle forest. After carefully observing the structure, form, and even the smallest cracks and traces of the ACC, the artist positioned the work in a way that does not disrupt the order and resonance of the space.

Light Drawing (Forest) #1 cuts across the space between trees, grabbing viewers’ focus and movement and offering a new perspective on their relationship with the location. The artwork meets, intersects, and disassembles, capturing the sense of spatiality that exists in the distance between the components. Viewed between the empty spaces, the surrounding landscape and the inconsistent weather add to the changing dimensions.

Oh’s work is completed by the individual experiences of each viewer. In Light Drawing (Forest) #1, viewers discover and create new forms within the variations of the space.