LANDSCAPE I

About LANDSCAPE I

This installation explores the relationship between humans and nature, as well as between the individual and the collective, through the mediums of clay and time. Inspired by the ever-shifting boundary where land meets sea, Seung Jun Seo translates the rhythms and transformative flows of nature into a sculptural and spatial language.

Atop black wooden pillars rest hundreds of irregular, silver-toned forms. Each object possesses a unique shape, and its faceted, fragmented surface catches and reflects light differently. Like the shimmering surface of waves under light, they continuously shift, producing subtle vibrations. Together, they form a landscape of coexistence, where difference and heterogeneity come into harmony.

Each fragment functions as a “unit of existence,” embodying an individual life participating within the vast continuity of nature. Through a repetitive and meditative process of labor, the artist embraces cracks, imperfections, and the process itself as essential conditions of being. The silver surfaces evoke the afterimage of light breaking upon water, metaphorically suggesting ephemerality, renewal, and the breath of time.

This work is both a landscape and a question:
“If nature is in constant flux and infinite, where does the human position itself within it?”

Here, LANDSCAPE I operates not merely as a visual scene, but as a field of visual contemplation. It becomes an attempt to reposition human existence within the order of nature—a quiet space for reflecting on the coexistence of absence and presence, chaos and structure, individuality and totality.