Jeongmoon Choi is an artist based in Berlin Germany best known for her unique light installations. Her main goal as an artist is to redefine ordinary spaces with her installations. The main materials that she uses in her light art installations are fine wool thread (white and colored), and ultraviolet lights. When she first comes up with an idea, she maps it out on paper by making a layout of the room and drawing straight lines in it. She likes to have a very well thought out plan before she starts hanging the thread. As she is hanging the thread the room is dark with only ultraviolet lights on. The UV lights illuminate the threads that are barley visible to the naked eye, creating a laser like optical illusion.
The concept behind her work is to transport the viewer into a different dimension where two and three dimension are blended. She aims for her work to be sci-fi-esque and very thought provoking. One of the newest concepts that she uses in her art pieces is the concept of showing nature through her instillations. One of her most well known instillations is Double Vision. This piece is made with white and colored wool, and UV lights illuminating them. This piece was planned out so that the viewer would be following her path as she walked hanging the threads. She did this by making a rough draft of how she wanted to hang the thread but organically moving through the room and hanging each section where she thought it would look best. The threads were hung in a way where they almost seem to vibrate creating a double vision effect to the viewer.
One of her newer works called Le Pouls de Terre, translated from French to the pulse of the earth focuses on the concept of nature. The theme of this piece is the pulse of the earth caused by an earthquake. The lines in Le Pouls de Terre emulate a seismograph, which is an instrument that records and measures earthquakes. This instillation is a recreation of the seismograph from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that caused the largest tsunami in the world. This tsunami led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The materials used for this instillation were white wool threads and UV lights. The next popular piece that Jeongmoon created is called Drawing in Space.
Drawing in Space is a challenge of perception, creating a depth effect in a plain square room. It is a play on surfaces and lines using white and colored wool thread and UV lights. Jeongmoon wanted this room to evoke a feeling of disorientation. The theme of this piece if housing nature and natural disasters which is seen through the craziness of the lines on the floor and ceiling. The last instillation of Jeongmoon’s that I will be talking about is a piece called Portal. This instillation is unique because a mirror is used as well as the white wool thread and UV lights. The mirror is used as a reflection of the top half of the portal to make it look like there is a bottom half that leads somewhere. This piece is used to make people think and wonder where this portal is leading to, and what is on the other side.
