Jun Haeng Lee
The moment we call trees ‘green’ and the ocean ‘blue’, we confine a world of subtle variation into simple words. In doing so, we often miss the infinite gradients that exist between these categories. The exhibition Green to Blue invites us to linger in this in-between space, where fixed names begin to falter and perception remains fluid and open-ended. The words we inherit profoundly influence how we interpret the visible world. While some cultures draw a clear boundary between green and blue, in others both coexist within a single chromatic category. Such differences reveal that colour does not exist as a purely visual fact, but is negotiated through language and the ways we learn to describe our surroundings.
Vision is equally provisional. Rather than receiving light passively, the brain filters and adjusts visual information through a process known as cognitive normalisation, drawing on prior encounters and accumulated familiarity. What we see, then, is not a direct transcription of optical input, but an interpretive process shaped by a continuous act of interpretation.
Across the exhibition, the works share a palette of green and blue, yet each artist approaches colour through their own lived experience. Colours are selected as carriers of personal memory, sensation, and association, shaped by individual histories and ways of seeing. Through these subjective choices, green and blue acquire distinct meanings, unfolding across memory, bodily awareness, environmental connection, and the passage of time. Rather than assigning fixed interpretations, Green to Blue treats colour as a connective threshold, inviting the viewer to step beyond words and linger within a perceptual space that resists closure.