Past Exhibitions
Noh Sang Hee(1981~)
Noh Sang-hee graduated from Chungnam University's Western Painting Department and participated in the 'Artience Project' in 2016 and has been working as a resident artist at the 'Temi Art Creation Center' in 2017. He is a composer of various genres such as painting, drawing, sound, and new media. His biggest theme is a compulsive external stimulus that affects mind and body, regardless of individual intent. This comes from the invisibility of the individual and the interest in social factors that shape the individual. And the body appears in the works as a contact point between the individual / society that directly experiences the factors and an important expression medium. For example, the "stress measurement" work is a subject that has been intensively studied in the artist's recent works. We have accumulated body data such as brain waves, brain electric signals, and body heat for a considerable period of time and have created this work by visually reducing the measurement data. The body data converted into the video image by using the paint on the plane or the mapping source is reworked as an art with the medical information of the subject to visually show the interaction of the environment and the individual.
In the 2017 <ARTLAB DAEJEON>, we paid attention to the fine-grained motif "fine dust." The artist scientifically measured the effects of fine dust on our bodies, specifically cells and neural networks, and used the data as parameters to solve them as paintings, 3D sculptures, and video images. The cell is an independent conscious system that responds to external stimuli and defines itself as a creature that is independently active. The artist scientifically measures and visualizes how negative stimuli such as fine dust leave harmful traces on cells and neural networks. A 3D printer is a sculptural representation of the state of the cell. The video image projected on the shape reconstructs the state of the cell and the neural network in three dimensions. These works show the state of the body exposed to fine dust and reflect on external violence applied to mind and body.
What is interesting is that the physical condition of the subject is revealed through the data. In the work, information about a part of the body of the subject is imprinted, and thus the work becomes an extension of the body of the subject. Just as the performance movement of the 1960s and 1970s reduced the artist's body to art, Noh Sang-hee uses the body data as a resource to produce a new art that combines art and the biological body. In addition, the artist acts as a midwife who uses the intangible data to induce the image of the work to be formed based on the data, rather than using the body as a direct expression medium. In this process, the intentional intervention of the artist is minimized, and it is the variable body itself that influences the whole work. The area where science and art can meet most directly is created.
