JEAN RAH
나 진 숙
Jean Rah would refers to the title of art works as “The Wave of Breath, Water and Wind”. The wave here reveals her awareness of the structure of existence. The structure of existence appears to be multiple, multi-layer and polysemous rather than concise and unitary. The wave she comments has the similar connotation of Gilles Deleuze’s ‘fold’.
A being is a conscious subject emerged from the surface of the fold and also an unconscious subject hidden under the fold as well. In other words, a being is a linguistic subject possible to summon to the inside of consciousness and a non-linguistic subject, subject of a desire impossible to summon to the inside of consciousness.
The texture of existence is closely associated with rhythm, movement, vitality and biorhythm. The artist discovers a clue to this rhythm in the breath of a being, the undulating surface of water and the wind flirting with leaves. The rhythm, as does a wave, spreads to the outside from the inside of existence and resonates to the inside from the outside of existence.
Jean Rah, exploring the theme of the wave of existence, fold and rhythm, conveys the joy of life and the resonance of all living things.
By Kho Chung-hwan, Art Critic