Born in Seoul, Korea, Minjeong An is a fine-artist and graphic designer who has been invited to show her work at numerous exhibitions including “Going Around The Corner of the Square” at Gellery Palais de Seoul in 2010. Her work is about concretizing, clarifying and forming the visible as well as the invisible schematics-such as personal memories and emotions-by using visual, mathematical and scientific languages.

My schematics appear to be emotionless and analytic, but when you take a close look at it, the majority of my work employs motifs from personal memories, people around me and things that I have. As in “Self-Portrait,” “The Power of a Kiss,” and “Six-Membered Family Portrait,” the work titles also show that the works are somewhat autobiographic and reveal who I am emotionally. They can be seen quite personal and trivial, and yet they are meaningful, something like treasures that I can cherish. Many people overlook the value of everyday things and schematics relationships and often treat them as being menial or unproductive. I want to discover the true and priceless value out of seemingly insignificant things and share them with others. In other words, I am using the logical and scientific tools to transform something trivial and invisible into something memorable and visible.

I would say, lines are the minimal, or the smallest. This definition can be read in multiple ways, but I would say each line shows the smallest unit of study. We see many diagrams and charts everywhere on a daily basis. But, as far as I remember the very serendipitous moment was about 10 year ago when I worked as a web designer. I came across an architectural floor plan on the web and found the complicated lines and signs just beautiful and compelling. I guess, even before this I had been drawn to collaged and highly complex images, but this was a kind of clicking moment seeing the beauty of the floor plan.