Jae-Eun Suh's Ensemble Archives is an exhibition that explores memory place through the use of video and photo archives. The archives reflect on the past, present, and future, comprising mundane and everyday scenes from disparate locations collected over time.
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The artworks on display feature natural and urban landscapes and soundscapes, immersing visitors in a wide range of emotions. Suh's use of vibrant colors, layers, and collage technique captures the sense of space, transporting visitors to a recreated imaginary realm.
Artist Statement
My work reflects my experiences as a Korean American straddled in multiple locations and cultures (South Korea, France, and the United States) at different times of my life. The research for my work begins with looking at photo and video archives of my local or transcontinental travel, and the resulting patterns and images that connote both place and passage. Through the material mediation, the visual elements of that data are fragmented and reconstructed into a new form, portraying a sense of longing; physical and emotional disconnection from others is depicted as physical distance over space and time.
Digital technology serves as a bridge for the sculptural, physical, virtual, and sensorial experience. Technology also conveys the concept of telepresence that helps maintain our relationships and communication with others.
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Videos projected onto objects and architecture with abstracted and fragmented images interplay between transition and temporality or permanence. With the control of playback speed in moving images, my work encourages both active and intimate contemplative meditation.
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My research also investigates the relationship between the body and space evoking the longing through visual, auditory, and haptic responses. The viewers are invited to this constructed space to find meaning from disparate fragments, and projecting their own experiences and imagination as they undergo and navigate through space. The visual layer adds and removes specificity and visualizes dualities — tangible and intangible; clear and hazy; large and small; intimate and distant.
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