One of the characteristics of Suh Kyoung-Ja's prints is game. It is as if a pleasant game of children who enjoy with repeated actions to build up the sand castles on the seashore. We come to perceive our eyes irregular moving and our image dynamically swirling through sharp movement and condensed shape of touches by her swift delineation. It is a kind of energy as well as fierce eruption of her inner world. Feeling of change in space by two conflicting lines, which approach us as an energy. Human bodies that she produces is not those with complete surface from the viewpoint of Classicism. It is already delivered as an energy like a Morse code through the process of decomposition and dismantlement.

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Origin of that energy seems to be resulted from her unconscious and sexual instinct. Such a reason is in that parts of sexual symbol is by far stressed. Emphasis of the upper body and the pelvis illustrating abundance, fecundity and female's sexual symbol makes us read changes in the artist's violent and fierce emotion. Meanwhile, we can not neglect that its representational characteristic is based upon her unconscious action. That technique has originated from Surrealism or Abstract Expressionism, which furthermore helps us approach and interpret her psychological state.

 

Byung-Kil Choi

Ph. D. of Philosophy, Art Critic & Professor, Wonkwang University