Min Moon

Using homemade materials, Moon Mean creates works that reconstruct large and small events that happen to him and his surroundings. He prepares solid and light atypical blanks by layering macerated Hanji and paints on them with turbid pigments he calls metallic tempera. Like the moon hanging over a smudged horizon, the silhouette of the ceiling in his room at night with unknown time, the ripples in the river as someone else would have seen, scenes with no name or owner are slowly transformed by the artist’s hand into uneven images. For him, reality is an opaque mass of too many superimpositions to grasp clearly. Fragments of images stored in his phone or glimpsed on social media overlap and intermingle in a foggy field of faded light, transforming them into abstractions. Flowing on the edges of painting and sometimes borrowing from sculpture and installation, Moon’s work questions the gap between reality and fiction, truth and misunderstanding, memory and fact.