Accumulating and recognizing the passage of time is a very subjective, personal, and irregular sense. In each person's time, which sometimes circulates slowly and perhaps accumulates continuously, the perspective of looking at everyday moments inevitably contributes.

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  In 《Outline of Time》, four writers develop their stories in their own ways based on elements experienced in everyday life and real time.

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  Sungsoo Kim's work is a process of exploring the conflict between unconsciousness and consciousness represented by images and language. This comes from discovering amplified sounds and unique images through personal conditions. The artist investigates and collects various types of objects represented by media and text images in the material world, and in this process, discovers the cracks that occur between an individual's suppressed consciousness and the flow of the world. The conflicts that occur when the collected images are arranged and the collection process and results of these random images are personal records that respond to the trends of the times.

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  Dabeen Lee's world exists with one rule. The artist's world, which is based on delicate line drawings, has been steadily accumulated over several years, with more than one piece of fantasy realized each day. The narrative of the work is made using the forms of myth, fantasy, and comics, but its foundation comes from the very trivial elements and actions of daily life as seen by the author. The time constructed as a separate world by borrowing fantasy is in contrast to the continuous and linear time made up of years and dates.

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  Based on his consistent drawings, Dexter Park thinks about various ways to pictorially translate elements of interest in everyday life. The everyday elements that the author randomly adopts cannot be separated from their social and cultural context due to the influence of moving abroad during middle school. However, the artist disassembles and reconstructs the images adopted out of familiarity through continuous drawing, and considers ways to express pure texture and volume when finally transferring them to painting. Drawings as natural as everyday life continue to create new times and stories until they are reconstructed on the canvas.

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  GAJJA reorganizes the helpless passage of time into ceramic objects. The exhibition work “4:31:07.65” depicts a small ember burning for 4 hours, 31 minutes and 7.65 seconds using 800 ceramic pieces. Each candle, which has no identical color or shape, is unique and contains a moment in itself. The artist embodies finely divided time as unmelting seconds, allowing the audience to visually recognize the passing time and moments.

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  Through works that reflect each individual's time differently, we want to look into the time and narrative sensuously and see how the daily flow that started in small units is made visible through art. I hope that this will be a time for you to experience the ‘contours’ of different times, which are neither constant nor continuous, and cannot be easily seen with the naked eye, and to think about your own time.

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Curator Hyejun Kim