The fundamental theme behind Ho-Yeol Ryu's animations and photographs is to question simple perceptions of reality. He aims to present seemingly impossible situations or phenomena and, through the use of digital manipulation, to alter them to a paralell unreality. Life is thereby recreated but from another, unreal perspective. Ryu's animation does not attempt to emulate the look and feel of film but instead represents the movement of the leaves on the tree and their behaviour when influenced by wind, sky and the time of day. Using rectangular blocks to create the leaves and a limited palette of blue and white the sound of the wind in the leaves and the rise and fall of the leaves evoke both the mood of the scene and the feel of the weather. Born in Seoul in 1971, Ryu completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture at Chung-Ang University in Seoul before obtaining his Masters Degree from the Braunschweig School of Art in Germany. Ryu has exhibited extensively and internationally and has work in several prominent collections.
