Hong Seung-Hye’s recent works under the title Organic Geometry express the artist’s interest in geometric space, which she regards as the architectural space in its pure form surrounding modern civilization. She focuses on giving the vitality and warmth of a living thing to artificial and geometric forms that might look dreary and dry but have become ‘Second Nature.’ These various geometric forms, presented by piling up pixels of a computer-assisted image, are distorted and multiplied by every possible play of forms between reduction and expansion, micro and macro, order and disorder, permutations and combinations, logical and accidental, and colors and ‘non-colors.’ These forms begin to look like organic bodies that can suddenly sprout out and prosper.
Hong became interested in such animation work beginning with the simple idea that she might be able to give life to such pure forms so that they could move like living things. For her, that something can move is definite evidence of life. The new narrative begins with the first movement.
