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Jeju Island Korea, 2013

Self-operating landscape
He says our daily lives are becoming concurrent. For example, a
complete different space and time are created if heras with land-
scape picture of Finnish is installed on the street construction site.
Another sight has invaded, and created the virtual and the reality.
As he noticed the collapse of the boundary between virtual and
reality, and saw the coexistence of the conflict beings in the same
space, he wanted to show those scenes as the 'political landscapes'.
He focused not on the separation of reality and virtual space, but
on the phenomenon of coexistence. Yong hwan Lee approaches
the modernistic way through the most traditional method of pho-
togrpahy to show paradoxically that the way we perceive the world
has completely changed. Also, he emphasizes that the reality and
virtual space seen in the photographs are not morphing reality but
the actual scenes that are visible to us.
His work began in 2010 with interest in the landscape where natu-
ral space coexists with reality space. The meaning of politics that he
speaks in the title of the exhibition 'political landscape' is a broader
concept. He was interested in the landscape reacting to the polit-
ical action of capital and power. It is his work to see how nature
lies in the political flow. Through his photograph, he talks about the
self-operating landscape according to political goals that are the
power and capital. According to people's desires, that landscape is
constantly changing.

"My photographs stand at the point
where they interfere with each other
with social, political, and economic
implications."
Beijing China, 2012

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