Sculptor Yi Hwan-Kwon presents works that reflect his research on distorted images and three-dimensional space, which can be experienced in 'spectacles,' that is, media such as TV, movie screens and computers. Though his stretched-out and flattened sculptures occupy space, they evoke the visual illusion that the viewer is looking at a two-dimensional screen. In particular, space that includes time cannot be understood simply through the concept of place. Countless spontaneous events happen in the space, and we live amidst such events while documenting our lives in that space. In his sculptures Yi captures the 'everyday,' which consists of continuous fragmentary events. As he documents the dichotomous emotions of tension and relaxation, excitement and stability that we experience in our lives, thus embodying us humans as continuums living variable lives in fixed forms, he tenaciously searches for a new visual paradigm. Ultimately, Lee Hwan-Kwon places moments in distorted sculptures, and at the same time completes sculptures as 'three-dimensional space' by condensing in them the subjective time and experiences of many people.
