Lee Jangwook

Performed with multiple film projectors and improvised sound, this live film of variable duration is an act of exploring multi-layered memories on landscape. Institutional, historical and personal approaches will be applied at the same time. Personal memory, which collides with historical context, may reveal fragments of innermost secrets.

The music film for Lee Minhwi's song "The Station."

This film is an experiment on editing, deconstructing and reconstructing, a game of collision between frames. As a narrative body disintegrates, it gradually becomes possible for viewers to pay attention to the phenomena of intra-frame intervals.

This film is made of footages shot on the rooftop of my friend's house at Kathmandu, Nepal. Lazimpat is a name of the street where the house locates. It's a portrait of people, sunshine, flowers, and etc. (Lee Jang-wook)

"Emotional memories that had formed the ambiguous boundaries between reality and fantasy began to divide exactly in two, and at the same time there was no emotion left on either side of reality and fantasy." Chang Gyeong is the name of a palace in central Seoul - a palace that was turned into a zoo by the occupying Japanese.

Light reflects off the screen and reaches the audience's bodies, only to reflect again, faintly moving elsewhere. Sound also reflects off the walls, resonating and echoing. Light and sound do not disappear; they linger, sometimes intersecting by chance and sometimes passing by. Photosynthesis is an attempt to sensitively capture and respond to these fleeting moments.

When reading out loud, sometimes it is hard to tell who between the reader and the text penetrates the other. Archives are not much different, since they are always perceived through their present utility. Two young female readers invited by Jangwook Lee discover as they read – in a careful, faltering voice – various articles from the “Sunday Seoul”, a typical magazine from the 1970s, devoted to supposed female archetypes: time, bodies, voices and texts echo one another. (Nicolas Feodoroff)

Images out of their intended context create new context, and also provide us the perception to be able to see which were there but not seen in its own context. This work is a process of research on the world which is familiar, but at the same time full of mysteries. This film is based on the abandoned images with variable reasons. I hoped the images would be free from the logic of selection. At the same time, I was curious about the world which is full of mysteries, always richer than the personal perception. (Lee Jangwook)