Artist recreates landscapes with microscopic life
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Lee I-nam, a South Korean media artist, currently exhibits his work at the Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul, where he presents moving traditional landscape paintings.
He created the artworks by observing microscopic organisms in water from Yongso Waterfall in Damyang County, South Korea. Lee magnified the patterns left by the microorganisms, finding shapes resembling mountains and valleys, which he then used to recreate famous landscapes.
One piece, a 4.8-meter digital screen titled ‘Micro Landscape-Geumgang Inner Mountain’, appears as a painting of Geumgang Mountain from a distance, but reveals individual, moving microorganisms up close. Another installation, ‘Two Worlds’, displays a traditional Chinese landscape painting partially submerged in water, with the underwater portion reimagined using the patterns of microorganisms. Lee also incorporated the sounds of microorganisms into the exhibition's ambient audio, challenging the assumption that they are silent.
The exhibition, titled ‘See the Invisible, Hear the Silent’, runs until October 24th.
