A German magazine, Kunstforum International dealt with creativity, especially the link between creativity and schizophrenia several times.1 In Lust und Zwang der Obsess: Betrachtungen in Kunst und Gesellschaft German art historian and curator Zybok, Oliver explained the obsessive phenomena emerged in diverse sectors of society. Zybok cited examples of illusions with celebrities, of violences with war and terrorism, of delusions with actual murder cases and of a collective obsession with state socialism.2 A
This exhibition is based on SEO Hye-Soon’s interests in the link between creativity and schizophrenia. The sound of violin playing decomposed, transformed Niccolo Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 is installed in spaces in the two completely different forms. On the music is the video images that indicate a space of memories and dreams. Just as a symptom of schizophrenia, diverse pictures and spaces are overlapped in which memories and imaginations are mixed. SEO activates the already-existing relations between soun
1 “Obsessionen I“ (Kunstforum International, 225), „Obsessionen II“ (Kunstforum International, 226)