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작성일 : 12-08-03 11:36
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Artist's Talk at Red Gallery, Saturday July 28, 2012
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글쓴이 :
관리자
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I’m working with the images from everyday life.
They are mainly photo images from various media, such as newspaper, advertisement fliers, magazines, internet, and my own photographs.
They are, as a whole, digital methodologies, all the real events, real scenes from the existing world. I believed that
these photographic images were true because they were just mechanical reflections of the real/existing world.
Last year, on December, I was in Korea and Kim Jeong Il, North Korean political leader died, people in NK were crying and screaming
in the extremely cold snowing streets in Pyeong Yang. When I saw the scenes at that time, I just as other people was shocked.
-. How can people crying like that, even if their leader died?- Actually, it was really unreal scene to me.
Then some questions arose in my mind.
-. What is real? Can I say that it is true what I look? How am I sure that they are real?
I became quite suspicious.
‘I never been to North Korea in my whole life, and I sit down here South Korea, and watch TV news, KJI’s funeral.
People are screaming in the streets, in the factories, on the square, everywhere in NK. However, what I am looking at is just digital images.
People can make any images with digital technology from nothing. In addition to that, political power in NK can make all the people
in their country crying, screaming like mad people, totally mad people.’
I became suspicious more and more! In this way, the suspicions of the reality of the existing world became one of the subjects of my practice.
Furthermore, at the same time, I felt some strange feelings from those people. It was a kind of sublime from the people who are confronting
the history. Everybody’s life lies on the history. History is composed of world people’s everyday lives.
I always have considered history as a heavy, weight subject in my life, as I have lived in the only country divided into two parts in the world
in this century. But I suddenly realized that history could be really light, lighter than air, snow in air, because the people facing it are going through it.
I felt certain kind of sublime from the people confronting the history very heavy, weight but they never known the weight of history
and the substance of history. That is the people what I want to express in my paintings and drawings.
Furthermore, I realized that I don’t have any right to despise them who are stepping forward silently into history.
I feel an unknown shiver when I face a canvas (or paper) for depicting these figures. But I’d like to remove its weight from my works.
Because ‘when we say that we know what we say, but at the same time, it can be said that we don’t know that’.
Through the practice, I wanted to make them to be light like dust and feather, lights and stars in the night sky.
Thank you.
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