For Shim Hyun-Joo, the role of art is to deal with the question of the spirit and reveal the energy of the spiritual world. The power and the code of Shim’s art is in its effort to open the affirmative and negative aspects of an idea by crossing over the realm of human consciousness and the unconsciousness with a spiritual attitude taken by looking at existence.
Shim Hyun-Joo does not apply materialistic imagination to the notion of circulatory, rather than linear, time according to the rule of her own making. She wants her work to function as an eye directed towards the outer world to make possible the interaction between all directions, thus ensuring viewers freely cross over between reality and the world of dreams.
